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This study considers the figure of the female dancer in French
literary, visual, and performing art from 1830 to 1930. It explores
how manifestations of the la danseuse shape notions of Modernism
and asks why dance occupies a privileged position in a variety of
Modernist media.
First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel,
combining critical and pedagogical approaches. Ever since it was
first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel
Disgrace has provoked controversy. Set in post-apartheid South
Africa, it follows Prof. David Lurie as he encounters disgrace
through his sexual exploitation of a student and then through the
shocking gang-rape of his only daughter. The novel's uncompromising
portrayal of the "new" South Africa outraged many, who found the
book regressive, even racist. It also challengedreaders worldwide
to confront its hard questions. This first book of essays devoted
to the novel ambitiously brings together criticism and pedagogy.
The ten critical essays and eight essays on teaching Disgrace
grapple with the ethical issues the novel so provocatively raises:
rape, gender, race, animal rights. Disgrace is widely taught in
colleges and universities and read in book clubs; the debates it
has given rise to will take on fresh life with the release of the
upcoming film starring John Malkovich. Unusually, the eighteen
contributors to the collection are all faculty members or graduates
of the same institution, the Johnston Center for Integrative
Studies atthe University of Redlands, and have worked together
closely in crafting their essays over the past two years. The
volume will be exceptionally useful to teachers of literature,
philosophy, and South African culture, to book clubleaders, and to
all readers of Coetzee. Contributors: Nancy Best, James Boobar,
Bradley Butterfield, Jane Creighton, Matthew Gray, Pat Harrigan,
Gary Hawkins, Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, Daniel Kiefer, Bill
McDonald, Michael G. McDunnah, Kim Middleton, Kevin O'Neill,
Raymond Obstfeld, Kathy Ogren, Kenneth Reinhard, Sandra D.
Shattuck, Patricia Casey Sutcliffe, Julie Townsend. Bill McDonald
is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Redlands,
Redlands, California.
Two births, two tragedies. A family battered but resilient and
searching for the answers they need to bring them solace and help
them heal. When the birth of their first baby goes devastatingly
wrong, Jessamy and Luke's grief is complicated by the perceived
guilt they each carry. Meaningful communication between them is
lost and their marriage deteriorates. A memorial service provides
the opening needed for the couple to be honest with each other.
Secrets are revealed and love rediscovered, but when the one thing
Luke hoped for above all else becomes a reality, their joy is
short-lived. It brings a new complication that threatens to destroy
their fragile marriage. Birth, death, forgiveness, and acceptance
are the warp and weave of Jessamy and Luke's story. But most of
all, Absent Children is about love - the love between a man and a
woman, and the love of parents for their children, present and
absent.
Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, under the glow of
gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the
figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French
culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an
emblem of their own artistic prowess. They represented her
alternately as an elusive ideal, a saucy prostitute, or a dangerous
seductress. Dancers, in turn, produced their own images, novels and
autobiographies, thereby contributing to an ongoing cultural debate
around performance, spectatorship, desire, and art. In this
interdisciplinary study of la danseuse, Julie Townsend examines the
rise and fall of classical ballet, the phenomenon of the music
hall, and the birth of modern dance. She highlights moments of
representational crisis and emergent aesthetics in her
consideration of poetry, novels, painting, early film, and women's
autobiography.
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