| Description |
vi, 243 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Actualizing Absence: The Pastness of Performance / Mark Franko and Annette Richards -- 2. The Somatics of the Past: Helen and the Body of Tragedy / Karen Bassi -- 3. Figural Inversions of Louis XIV's Dancing Body / Mark Franko -- 4. Writing the Breast, Performing the Trace: Madame d'Arblay's Radical Prosthesis / Joseph Roach and Shelby Richardson -- 5. Like a Performance: Performativity and the Historicized Body, from Bellori to Mapplethorpe / Catherine M. Soussloff -- 6. Rhetorical Ductus, or, Moving through a Composition / Mary Carruthers -- 7. C. P. E. Bach's Free Fantasia and the Performance of the Imagination / Annette Richards -- 8. Performance on Paper: Rewriting the Story of Notational Progress / John Butt -- 9. The Ambivalent Triumph: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cusco, Peru / Carolyn Dean -- 10. Gender Ambiguities and Erotic Excess in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera / Susan McClary |
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11. Christian Aerobics: The Afterlife of Ecclesia's Moralized Motions / James Miller |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arts.
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Performing arts.
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| Author |
Franko, Mark.
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Richards, Annette.
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| LC no. |
99043625 |
| ISBN |
0819563943 (cased) |
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0819563951 (paperback) |
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