Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance (Modernist Literature and Culture),Used

Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance (Modernist Literature and Culture),Used

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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 antimodernclassicism permeates modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology.The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartismthe popular transnational movement which promoted mythic statueposing, poetic recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and spiritual development. Derived from nineteenthcentury acting theorist Franois 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 nineteenthcentury popular entertainments and Delsartism's hybrid performances, this book considers the canonical modernists Pound and T. S. Eliot, lesserknown 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, and silent film demonstrates that studies of modernism often overemphasize breaks with the past. Modernism also posed myth in an ambivalent relationship to modernity, a halt in the march of progress that could function as escapism, skeptical critique, or a figure for the death of gods and civilizations.

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