Online Library TheLib.net » Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages
cover of the book Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Ebook: Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Seeta Chaganti

00
30.01.2024
0
0
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 Footingargues 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 Footingdeploys the motion of dance to change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.
Download the book Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages for free or read online
Read Download
Continue reading on any device:
QR code
Last viewed books
Related books
Comments (0)
reload, if the code cannot be seen