{"product_id":"dance-and-british-literature-an-intermedial-encounter-theory-typology-case-studies-9789004292567","title":"Dance and British Literature: An Intermedial Encounter: (Theory - Typology - Case Studies)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens, when dance and literature meet; when movement is integrated into the literary world or even replaces verbal communication? This study explores dance in British literature from Shakespeare to Yeats, and illustrates the many ways in which these two forms of artistic expression can enter into various kinds of intermedial encounters and cultural alliances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents Acknowledgements  1.\tIntroduction  2.\tTHEORY: Mediality and Literalised Dance  2.1.\tDefinition of Medium  2.2.\tLiterature as Medium  2.2.1.\tA Semiotic Perspective on Literature  2.2.2.\tFrom a Semiotic to a Cultural Perspective on Literature 2.3.\tDance as Medium . 2.3.1.\tGeneral Statements  2.3.2.\tA Semiotic Perspective on Dance  2.3.2.1.\tMovement  2.3.2.2.\tTime  2.3.2.3.\tSpace  2.3.3.\tFrom a Semiotic through a Cultural to an Intermedial Perspective on Dance 2.3.3.1.\tDance Genres as Markers of Class, National Identity, and Gender  2.3.3.2.\tThe Body and Signification . 3.\tTYPOLOGY: Literalised Dance as Intermedial Encounter  3.1.\tIntermediality as a Concept  3.2.\tToward a Typology of Literalised Dance  3.2.1.\tA Semiotic Approach  3.2.1.1.\tExtra-compositional Intermediality 3.2.1.2.\tIntra-compositional Intermediality  3.2.2.\tA Cultural Approach  3.2.2.1.\tLiteralised Dance as a Platform for Cultural Discourse . 3.2.2.2.\tRepresentations of Dance Culture in Poetry and Caricature  4.\tCASE STUDIES: Literalised Dance in British Drama  4.1.\tDance in British Drama from the Renaissance to the 18th Century  4.1.1.\tPlurimediality in Renaissance Masques— Dance as Allegory of Order: Jonson’s Hymenaei and Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Jonson’s Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, Milton’s Comus  4.1.2.\tIntermedial Reference and Cultural Ridicule in Restoration and 18th Century Comedy: Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing Master, Sheridan’s The Rivals  4.2.\tDance in British Drama of the 19th Century  4.2.1.\tPopular Literature and the Waltz  4.2.1.1.\tThe Waltz: A Public Scandal and its Poetic Representations  4.2.1.2.\tThe Waltz in 19th Century ‘Illegitimate’ Drama  4.2.2.\tElitist Drama and Modern Dance  4.2.2.1.\tPresence through Absence: Oscar Wilde’s Salome  4.2.2.2.\tThe Revolution of Modernism: Yeats and Modern Dance 5.\tConclusion  Works Cited  List of Illustrations  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210668990807,"sku":"9789004292567","price":90.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dance-and-british-literature-an-intermedial-encounter-theory-typology-case-studies-9789004292567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}