English and Comparative Literature
Graduate Seminar
W 12:10-2PM
How do stage and screen use movement to further the meaning of texts? What relationships emerge between motion and emotion, between kinesis and empathy, and how do those relationships vary across different body types and identities, and even across the movement repertories of animals and objects? How does the moving body evade theoretical frameworks that seek to arrest it? To answer such questions in two historically specific ways, this seminar zigzags between early modernity and the last century to survey major performance genres in each that make pronounced use of movement. We will examine motion at the scale of individual and collective embodiments, and in actions that range from gestures to dance steps.
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