Dancing literature

This thesis seeks to illustrate the different manifestations of dance in two main literary genres: poetry and drama. It looks at the relationship between dance and literature during the Modem era. Due to the ephemerality of dance, language struggles to encapsulate it; hence dance exists in writin...

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Main Author: Chan, Rosemary Xiu Fen
Other Authors: Cornelius Anthony Murphy
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-654322019-12-10T10:48:29Z Dancing literature Chan, Rosemary Xiu Fen Cornelius Anthony Murphy School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature This thesis seeks to illustrate the different manifestations of dance in two main literary genres: poetry and drama. It looks at the relationship between dance and literature during the Modem era. Due to the ephemerality of dance, language struggles to encapsulate it; hence dance exists in writing a manner of haunting, where it is simultaneously absent and present. This thesis will explore the metaphors of dance, as well as the choreography of dance. In relation to this, the first chapter, Dancing (in) Poetry, will examine the works of two Modernist poets, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot, while the second chapter, Dance in the Theatre, will look at Dancing in Lughnasa by Brian Friel, and several of Samuel Beckett's plays. Master of Arts (HSS) 2015-09-22T04:24:24Z 2015-09-22T04:24:24Z 2014 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/65432 en 105 p. application/pdf
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Chan, Rosemary Xiu Fen
Dancing literature
description This thesis seeks to illustrate the different manifestations of dance in two main literary genres: poetry and drama. It looks at the relationship between dance and literature during the Modem era. Due to the ephemerality of dance, language struggles to encapsulate it; hence dance exists in writing a manner of haunting, where it is simultaneously absent and present. This thesis will explore the metaphors of dance, as well as the choreography of dance. In relation to this, the first chapter, Dancing (in) Poetry, will examine the works of two Modernist poets, William Carlos Williams and T. S. Eliot, while the second chapter, Dance in the Theatre, will look at Dancing in Lughnasa by Brian Friel, and several of Samuel Beckett's plays.
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