The Pointe of the Pen : Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination /
The Pointe of the Pen argues that the nineteenth century's balletic innovations the most iconic of which was the ballerina en pointe, or dancing on the tips of her toes - assisted nineteenth-century poets in both conceiving and articulating the object of verse in an age increasingly shaped by t...
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press
2021.
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| סדרה: | Romantic Reconfigurations Studies in Literature and Culture 1780 1850 Ser.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1pncr55 |
תוכן הענינים:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Every savage can dance : English poets and ballet
- Chapter 1. Sprightly dance and other measured motion : Wordsworth and balletic expressivity
- Chapter 2. Classic pas
- sans flaw : Byron, Shelley, and the balletic body
- Chapter 3. Tiptoe aspirations : Barrett Browning and balletic mobility
- Works cited
- Index.