Silent Eloquence Lucian and Pantomime Dancing

Name: Silent Eloquence Lucian and Pantomime Dancing
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ISBN: 9780715634912

ISBN-10: 0715634917

ISBN-13: 9780715634912

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Ismene Lada-Richards

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Looking particularly at Lucian's 'On the Dance', a dialogue written at the height of pantomime's popularity, this cultural study of the genre provides an assessment of its importance in the symbolic economy of imperial and antiquity. It offers a reading of primary sources, as well as a wealth of interdisciplinary perspectives.

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 5/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Editors' Foreword


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction: Setting the Scene



Pantomime Dancing Through the Centuries



Pantomime and Other Entertainments: Cross-Fertilisations and Affiliations



'Technologies' of the Body: The Pantomime's Art



Pantomimes and their Body 'Politic'



Pantomimes and their Body Dangerous



Emancipating Pantomime: Lycinus' Speech in Lucian's On the Dance



Lucian's On the Dance or The Sophist's Pantomime



Pantomime, the Intellectual's Equal? The Genre Through the Eyes of the Cultural Elites



A 'Margin of Mess': Pantomime and the Strategies of Elite Cultural Self-definition



Dancing on the Brink: The 'Hybrid' Discourse of Pantomime Dancing



Who is Afraid of Pantomime Dancers?



Controlling Theatre in the Imperial East: the Sophist and the Pantomime


Epilogue


Postscript: The Afterlife of Ancient Pantomime and Lucian's On the Dance


Notes


Bibliography


Index Locorum


General Index