DISCLOSURE:
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, Amazon and Alibris.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
Oxford University Press. NF. Date: 2011. Hardcover. Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket. Modernist Literature And Culture. 9.5 X 1.4 X 6.7 inches. 384 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information. . 2011. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199766266 9780199766260 [US]
ISBN10: 0199766266, ISBN13: 9780199766260, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket. Modernist Literature And Culture. 9.5 X 1.4 X 6.7 inches. 384 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information. [Mount Vernon, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
Modernist Literature & Culture. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar. xiv/357 pages."The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, "Modernism's Mythic Pose" argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology.The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism--the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue--posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Derived from nineteenth-century acting theorist François Delsarte and largely organized by women, Delsartism shaped modernist performances, genres, and ideas of gender. Even Ezra Pound, a famous promoter of the "new," made ancient figures speak in the "old" genre of the dramatic monologue and performed public recitations. Recovering precedents in nineteenth-century popular entertainments and Delsartism's hybrid performances, this book considers the canonical modernists Pound and T. S. Eliot, lesser-known poets like Charlotte Mew, the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov, Isadora Duncan the international dance star, and H.D. as poet and film actor.Preston's interdisciplinary engagement with performance, poetics, modern dance, a ...
ISBN10: 0199766266, ISBN13: 9780199766260, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover First Edition Modernist Literature & Culture. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar. xiv/357 pages. "The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, dance, photography, and film, "Modernism's Mythic Pose" argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology. The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism--the popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statue--posing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Derived from nineteenth-century acting theorist François Delsarte and largely organized by women, Delsartism shaped modernist performances, genres, and ideas of gender. Even Ezra Pound, a famous promoter of the "new," made ancient figures speak in the "old" genre of the dramatic monologue and performed public recitations. Recovering precedents in nineteenth-century popular entertainments and Delsartism's hybrid performances, this book considers the canonical modernists Pound and T. S. Eliot, lesser-known poets like Charlotte Mew, the Russian fil ...
New York: Oxford University Press, Date: 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Black paper covered boards, gold stamped titles at spine, light shelf wear to edges, corners and head and tail of spine, corners straight. Book body clean and tight, some b&w illustration throughout. Black photo illustrated dust jacket shows light shelf wear, brick orange titles at front and spine, no cuts or clippings, archival Brodart protected. 2011. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199766266 9780199766260 [US]
ISBN10: 0199766266, ISBN13: 9780199766260, [publisher: Oxford University Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition Black paper covered boards, gold stamped titles at spine, light shelf wear to edges, corners and head and tail of spine, corners straight. Book body clean and tight, some b&w illustration throughout. Black photo illustrated dust jacket shows light shelf wear, brick orange titles at front and spine, no cuts or clippings, archival Brodart protected. [Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]
Carrie J. (Assistant Professor of English and Women's Preston
USD
104.23
AHA-BUCH GmbH /AbebooksDE
ISBN10: 0199766266, ISBN13: 9780199766260, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity. [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2011]
ISBN10: 0199766266, ISBN13: 9780199766260, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2011]
DISCLOSURE:
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, Amazon and Alibris.
