Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion

✍ Scribed by Sabine Egger; Catherine E. Foley; Margaret Mills Harper

Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 271
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"This volume is derived from ideas explored at the interdisciplinary conference 'Connections in Motion: Dance in Irish and German Literature, Film and Culture,' held at the University of Limerick in November 2016"-- Introductio

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures
Introduction
Part I
Chapter One: Modernism, Migration, and Irish-German Connections in the 1930s and 1940s
Chapter Two: Erina Brady
Chapter Three: Duality of Cultural Influences as a Source of Insight and Inspiration
Chapter Four: Irish Dance Documentation for the Archive
Chapter Five: “Somewhere Between Remembering and Forgetting”
Chapter Six: Creating Tanztheater
Part II
Chapter Seven: Samuel Beckett, Kleist, and Oskar Schlemmer
Chapter Eight: Rhythm and Color
Chapter Nine: Yeats’s Transgressive Dancers
Chapter Ten: “I as a Text,” I as a Dance
Chapter Eleven: Dancing between Transgression and Transformation in German Literature after 1945 and 1989
Chapter Twelve: Dance and the Postmodern Subject in “Libidoökonomie” and “Der Kranich auf dem Kiesel in der Pfütze” by Feridun Zaimoglu
Chapter Thirteen: “Alive. Changing. New.”
Index
About the Contributors

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