Call for Papers for Proposed Special Session (3/1/04)
2004 MLA Philadelphia, PA
"Textual Bodies, Corporeal Words: Representing the Dance in British Literature
and Culture"
We are seeking papers that examine the intersections between dance and
literature in 19th-C British context, the representations of dance in
print form, and the interplay between dance and the cultural imagination.
Topics may include:
-bodies in motion vs. bodies in the text: distinctions between embodied
discourse and textual representation
-dance, literature, and gender
-dance and class ideology
-dance and "anti-theatrical prejudice"
-sylphs, ballet girls, music hall, pantomime, dance classes
-spectacle, spectatorship, role(s) of audience
-role of emotion in imagining/representing dance
-artifice, artificiality, (re)presention: on stage, on the page
-tropes, metaphors, symbolism, fantasies of/as dance
-performances as texts: critical challenges of reconstruction
-writers as performers, choreographers
-aesthetics of performing arts and related literary movements (Romanticism,
Decadence)
-parodies and perversions
-periodicals, popular imagination
Please send 1 page abstracts by March 1 via email (only) to
Megan Early Alter and/or Molly Engelhardt
megan-early@uiowa.edu mjengelh@usc.edu
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