Text as Dance: Walter Benjamin, Louis Marin, and Choreographies of the Baroque

by Mark Franko

This book offers a groundbreaking investigation into issues of gender, power and the representation of sovereignty in French Baroque court ballet - and in today's performances that recall them.

Mark Franko uses powerful interpretive tools derived from historiography and critical theory, especially the work of German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, to offer the reader both a historical and a theoretical interpretation of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350236888
• ISBN13: 9781350236882
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"