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Caroling Like Clockwork: Technologies of the Medieval Dancing Body in Dante's Paradiso.
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Dance Chronicle . Sep-Dec2018, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p303-334. 32p. 5 Color Photographs. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Dance studies scholars have explored the interrelatedness of dance, text, and technology in productive ways. Reorienting such an approach toward a medieval perspective, this article focuses on how Dante poeticizes dance in Paradiso, the third section of his Commedia. I begin by exploring Paradiso's representations of technology and kinesthesia. Dante, I argue, converges clockwork and dance imagery and, in doing so, simulates the experience of sacred phenomena. Next, I examine the vernacular technologies of Dante's dance language, which demonstrate linguistic mastery, envision a just society, and articulate an ethical approach to love. Ultimately, I posit that Dante's rendering of dance in poetry overcomes the limits of verbal communication and formulates a moralizing discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *DANCE education
*ORAL communication
*SCHOLARS
*MUSCULAR sense
*LINGUISTICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01472526
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Dance Chronicle
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 133897408
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2018.1514213