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Strange Footing - Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Strange Footing - Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages (Paperback)
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For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter,
stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an
experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of
dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship
between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues
that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of
poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry, and even misstep.
Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of
the body's regular marking of time and space, but rather in the
irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of,
and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through
artworks, paintings, and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti
illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding,
inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional
space and time. Strange Footing deploys the motion of dance to
change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of
poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.
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