EAN: 9781800859906
192 pages
Prix : £65.00
Date de publication : 03 Mars 2022
Emphasizing eighteenth-century ballet’s construction through print culture, Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopédie examines the shifting definition of ballet over the second half of the eighteenth century, highlighting the role of textual borrowing and compilation in disseminating knowledge during the Enlightenment.
- The first book on dance in Enlightenment encyclopedias
- Brings together multiple Enlightenment encyclopedias in a comparative study
- The first book to examine Noverre’s centrality through the study of textual borrowings
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“Whether read as a whole or independently, the Encyclopédie méthodique is an ideal case study for demonstrating how knowledge was reordered through textual borrowing and editorial decisions. In the case of ballet, Panckoucke’s editors dissolved many of Cahusac’s original cross-references, nullifying the structure that linked his articles together. At the same time, they created new ways of understanding ballet’s past and future, especially through its inclusion under the rubric of dance, rather than the other way around.”
(Read the author’s accompanying blog post)
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