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Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections - Couverture souple

 
9780786473915: Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections
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ISBN 10 : 0786473916 ISBN 13 : 9780786473915
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2012

Synopsis

From Chaucer to Fitzgerald, writers have used dancing as a vital, if subtle, element in plot and character development. The ballroom, an important element of society in real life, was a backdrop to grand passions or pivotal encounters--ideal ground for commentary on the social milieu.

This work presents 88 literary selections (from etiquette manuals, diaries, poems, plays, essays and novels) that together form a survey of social dance in England and America over a span of 500 years. They illustrate specific dances, social dance behavior or the intimate reactions of participants. One finds, for example, the ultimate downfalls of Flaubert's Emma Bovary, Hardy's Eustacia Vye, and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina are all foretold in pivotal dance scenes. Fully indexed.

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À propos de l'auteur

Allison Thompson is a writer, historian, and folk dance leader and musician. (She was the student dance leader for the Elizabethan May Day festival held at Earlham College in 1977.) She lives in Pittsburgh.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786473916
ISBN 13 
9780786473915
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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