The Anatomy of Dance Discourse: Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World

ISBN-13: 9780198807728 / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Opis

The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh, original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance discourse of this period, juxtaposing philosophical and literary conceptualizations of dance and exploring how they interacted with different areas of cultural expression.

Recenzje

The reader of this book is in no danger of committing the error of Apuleius' 'scholarly ass': it is truly an exemplary piece of scholarship... It is to be recommended to all scholars interested in ancient dance and ancient literature on dance, performance studies, ekphrasis, the relation between the arts in antiquity as well as their relevance in rhetoric, philosophy and religious discourse.

O autorze

Karin Schlapbach holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Zurich. She joined the Institut du monde antique et byzantin at the University of Fribourg in 2017 after teaching classics for nine years in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. She has also occupied research positions at various institutions in the USA, the UK, and Germany. Her research focuses on the literature of the imperial period and late antiquity and she has published widely on dance and pantomime, philosophical prose, and the modern reception of late antiquity.