| Description |
x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Writing science |
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Writing science.
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| Contents |
1. Idealism, Pathology, Idiopathy: Chorus, Chorea, and Chora -- 2. The Madness of Giselle -- 3. The "Symptomatic Act": Mallarme, Charcot, and Loie Fuller -- 4. Celine's Biology and the Ballets of Bagatelles pour un massacre |
| Summary |
A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcendence of itself. Exploring dance's historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a "pathology," this book asks what has subtended the idealization of dance in the West. It investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature, and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry, and performance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-272) and index |
| Subject |
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961. Bagatelles pour un massacre.
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| SUBJECT |
Giselle (Choreographic work) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97822081
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| Subject |
Dance -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 19th century.
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Mental illness -- History -- 19th century.
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Pathology -- History -- 19th century.
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Women dancers -- History -- 19th century.
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Poetics.
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| LC no. |
98011386 |
| ISBN |
0804729891 cloth alkaline paper |
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0804735247 : |
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