Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé: The Passage from Art to Ritual

by Mary Lewis Shaw

Book Overview

Performance in the Texts of Mallarm offers a new theory of performance in the poetic and critical texts of Stephane Mallarm , a theory challenging the prevailing interpretation of his work as epitomizing literary purism and art for art's sake. Following an analytical presentation of the concepts of ritual and performance generally applied, Mary Shaw shows that Mallarm perceived music, dance, and theater as ideal languages of the body and therefore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271008075
• ISBN13: 9780271008073
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"