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The Anatomy of Dance Discourse - Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World (Hardcover)
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The Anatomy of Dance Discourse - Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World (Hardcover)
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Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman
performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse
offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of
dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview
of the dance discourse of this period and explores the
conceptualization of dance across an array of different texts, from
Plutarch and Lucian of Samosata, to the apocryphal Acts of John,
Longus, and Apuleius. The volume is divided into two parts: while
the second part discusses ekphraseis of dance performance in prose
and poetry of the Roman imperial period, the first delves more
deeply into an examination of how both philosophical and literary
treatments of dance interacted with other areas of cultural
expression, whether language and poetry, rhetoric and art, or
philosophy and religion. Its distinctive contribution lies in this
juxtaposition of ancient theorizations of dance and philosophical
analyses of the medium with literary depictions of dance scenes and
performances, and it attends not only to the highly encoded genre
of pantomime, which dominated the stage in the Roman Empire, but
also to acrobatic, non-representational dances. This twofold nature
of dance sparked highly sophisticated reflections on the
relationship between dance and meaning in the ancient world, and
the volume defends the novel claim that in the imperial period it
became more and more palpable that dance, unlike painting or
sculpture, could be representational or not: a performance of
nothing but itself. It argues that dance was understood as a
practice in which human beings, whether as dancers or spectators,
are confronted with the irreducible reality of their own physical
existence, which is constantly changing, and that its way to
cognition and action is physical experience.
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