Dance, outdoor spectacle, and massive political rallies reflected the turn away from language toward more gestural, mythic, and body-oriented ways of communicating. This preoccupation with physicality could be seen in the era's growing exultation in war
Dance, outdoor spectacle, and massive political rallies reflected the turn away from language toward more gestural, mythic, and body-oriented ways of communicating. This preoccupation with physicality could be seen in the era's growing exultation in war, blood sport, and high adventure -- and, in its most extreme form, in the racist cult of the body emerging in Hitler's Germany. He describes the shift from speech to gesture in modern drama and the revival of serious artistic interest in pantomime, a trend that culminated in Max Reinhardt's spectacular productions of The Miracle in London and New York. And he shows how bold attempts to revitalize literary language paralleled a new emphasis on the direct experience of the writer -- the more adventurous the life, the greater the literary appeal.Characterizing the moHarold B. He now lives with his family in Tucson, Arizona.
. After many years as a professor at Columbia University, he recently retired in order to devote himself entirely to research and writing. Segel is the author of numerous books, including Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543; Vienna Coffeehouse Wits, 1890-1938; Twentieth-Century Russian Drama: From Gorky to the Present (updated edition); and Pinocchio's Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Automatons, and Robots in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama, the last two available form Johns Hopkins
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It should spark debate and further research." -- Tim Scholl, Comparative Literature Studies. "Segel's book offers a valuable synthesis of mixed media from a wide range of Western traditions in the modernist period
- Title : Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative (PAJ Books)
- Author : Professor Harold B. Segel
- Rating : 4.62 (544 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-5-13
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 312 Pages
- Asin : 0801858216
- Language : English
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