{"product_id":"dancing-with-the-modernist-city-metropolitan-dance-texts-around-1900-hardcover","title":"Dancing with the Modernist City: Metropolitan Dance Texts Around 1900 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWesley Lim\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the 20th century dawned, authors, artists, and filmmakers flocked to cities like Paris and Berlin for a chance to experience a bustling urban life and engage with other artists and intellectuals. Among them were German-speaking authors and filmmakers such as Harry Graf Kessler, Rainer Maria Rilke, August Endell, Alfred D?blin, Else Lasker-Sch?ler, Segundo de Chom?n, and the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky. In their writing and artistic work from that period, they depicted the perpetual influx of stimuli caused by urban life--including hordes of pedestrians, bustling traffic, and a barrage of advertisements--as well as how these encounters repeatedly paralleled their experiences of watching early twentieth-century dance performances by Lo?e Fuller, Ruth St. Denis, and Vaslav Nijinsky. The convergence these writers and filmmakers saw between the unexpected encounters during their urban strolls and modern dance performances led to writings that interwove the two motifs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on cultural, literary, dance, performance, and queer studies, \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Modernist City\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes an array of material from 1896 to 1914--essays, novels, short stories, poetry, newspaper articles, photographs, posters, drawings, and early film. It argues that these writers and artists created a genre called the metropolitan dance text, which depicts dancing figures not on a traditional stage, but with the streets, advertising pillars, theaters, cafes, squares, and hospitals of an urban setting. Breaking away from the historically male, heteronormative view, this posthumanist mode of writing highlights the visual and episodic unexpectedness of urban encounters. These literary depictions question traditional conceptualizations of space and performance by making the protagonist and the reader feel like they embody the dancer and the movement. In doing so, they upset conventional depictions of performance and urban spaces in ways paralleling modern dance.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWesley Lim \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer in German Studies at the Australian National University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.96 x 8.82 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 22, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51773099114784,"sku":"9780472133307","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3acc3554c14c6753f40da3f5cfa4eb1e_ac665e79-f690-4cea-91d1-a664e02fae94.webp?v=1780419586","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dancing-with-the-modernist-city-metropolitan-dance-texts-around-1900-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}