Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance

Book Overview

Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual. Bodies of the Text is the first book-length study of the interconnections between the two arts and the body of writing about them. The essays, by scholar-critics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521270
• ISBN13: 9780813521275
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"