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9780804735247 0804735247 A history of dance s pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body s transcendence of itself. Exploring dance s historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a pathology, this book asks what has subtended the idealization of dance in the West. It investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature, and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry, and performance. In the nineteenth century, medicine becomes a major cultural index to measure the body s meanings. As a particularly performative form of madness, nineteenth-century hysteria preserved the traditional connection to dance in medical descriptions of choreas. In its withholding of speech and its use of body code, dance, like hysteria, functions as a form of symptomatic expression. Yet by working like a symptom, dance performance can also be read as a commentary on symptomatology and as a condition of possibility for such alternative approaches to mental illness as psychoanalysis. By redeeming as art what is lost in hysteria, dance expresses non-hysterically what only hysteria had been able to express: the somatic translation of idea, the physicalization of meaning. Medicine s discovery of idea manifesting itself in the body in mental illness strikingly parallels a literary fascination with the ability of nineteenth-century dance to manifest idea, suggesting that the evolution of medical thinking about mind-body relations as they malfunction in madness, as well as changes in the cultural reception of danced representations of these relations, might be paradigmatic shifts caused by the same cultural factors: concern about the body as a site of meaning and about vision as a theater of knowledge. ", If You Are Among The Approximately 22 Million Americans Who Suffer From Asthma, Or Have A Friend Or Relative Who Does, This Book Offers All The Information You Need To Better Understand And Manage The Condition. Completely Revised And Updated, 100 Questions & Answers About Asthma, Second Edition Includes Information About The Latest Scientific Approaches To Asthma Care And Research, Explains The Newest Guidelines And Treatment Recommendations Of The National Asthma Education And Prevention Program, Provides Comprehensive Information About Medicines Used To Treat Asthma, And Focuses On Healthy Living With Asthma. 100 Questions & Answers About Asthma, Second Edition Provides Authoritative, Practical Answers To Your Questions About Treatment Options, Coping Strategies--For Both Patient And Family--Sources Of Support, The Importance Of Exercise And Nutrition, And Much More. Written By Dr. Claudia S. Plottel, A World-Class Asthma Specialist, This Clearly Written, Highly Readable Book Offers The Latest Medical Knowledge And Practical Tips On What Asthma Is And What You Can Do To Treat It Effectively. Featuring "Insider" Advice From An Actual Patient, This Book Is An Invaluable Resource For Anyone Coping With The Physical And Emotional Turmoil Of This Chronic, Yet Highly Controllable Disease., This study investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance, and in doing so illuminates crucial issues in at least three fields: French literature and culture of the nineteenth century; dance history and feminist performance theory; modern medicine, including psychoanalysis and its discontents. Dance Pathologies considers the production and reception of nineteenth-century dance forms in a climate in which medicine becomes a major cultural index by which the body's meanings are measured. As a particularly performative form of madness, nineteenth-century hysteria preserved the traditional connection to dance in medical descriptions of 'choreas.' Beyond the visual resemblance that partly explains their historical coincidence, in its witholding of speech and its use of body code, dance functions as a form of symptomatic expression.
9780804735247 0804735247 A history of dance s pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body s transcendence of itself. Exploring dance s historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a pathology, this book asks what has subtended the idealization of dance in the West. It investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature, and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry, and performance. In the nineteenth century, medicine becomes a major cultural index to measure the body s meanings. As a particularly performative form of madness, nineteenth-century hysteria preserved the traditional connection to dance in medical descriptions of choreas. In its withholding of speech and its use of body code, dance, like hysteria, functions as a form of symptomatic expression. Yet by working like a symptom, dance performance can also be read as a commentary on symptomatology and as a condition of possibility for such alternative approaches to mental illness as psychoanalysis. By redeeming as art what is lost in hysteria, dance expresses non-hysterically what only hysteria had been able to express: the somatic translation of idea, the physicalization of meaning. Medicine s discovery of idea manifesting itself in the body in mental illness strikingly parallels a literary fascination with the ability of nineteenth-century dance to manifest idea, suggesting that the evolution of medical thinking about mind-body relations as they malfunction in madness, as well as changes in the cultural reception of danced representations of these relations, might be paradigmatic shifts caused by the same cultural factors: concern about the body as a site of meaning and about vision as a theater of knowledge. ", If You Are Among The Approximately 22 Million Americans Who Suffer From Asthma, Or Have A Friend Or Relative Who Does, This Book Offers All The Information You Need To Better Understand And Manage The Condition. Completely Revised And Updated, 100 Questions & Answers About Asthma, Second Edition Includes Information About The Latest Scientific Approaches To Asthma Care And Research, Explains The Newest Guidelines And Treatment Recommendations Of The National Asthma Education And Prevention Program, Provides Comprehensive Information About Medicines Used To Treat Asthma, And Focuses On Healthy Living With Asthma. 100 Questions & Answers About Asthma, Second Edition Provides Authoritative, Practical Answers To Your Questions About Treatment Options, Coping Strategies--For Both Patient And Family--Sources Of Support, The Importance Of Exercise And Nutrition, And Much More. Written By Dr. Claudia S. Plottel, A World-Class Asthma Specialist, This Clearly Written, Highly Readable Book Offers The Latest Medical Knowledge And Practical Tips On What Asthma Is And What You Can Do To Treat It Effectively. Featuring "Insider" Advice From An Actual Patient, This Book Is An Invaluable Resource For Anyone Coping With The Physical And Emotional Turmoil Of This Chronic, Yet Highly Controllable Disease., This study investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance, and in doing so illuminates crucial issues in at least three fields: French literature and culture of the nineteenth century; dance history and feminist performance theory; modern medicine, including psychoanalysis and its discontents. Dance Pathologies considers the production and reception of nineteenth-century dance forms in a climate in which medicine becomes a major cultural index by which the body's meanings are measured. As a particularly performative form of madness, nineteenth-century hysteria preserved the traditional connection to dance in medical descriptions of 'choreas.' Beyond the visual resemblance that partly explains their historical coincidence, in its witholding of speech and its use of body code, dance functions as a form of symptomatic expression.