Strange Footing
Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages
- Contents
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List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part One
1. “Vanysshed Was this Daunce”: Reenactment, Experience, Virtuality
2. Bonaventure and a Strumpet: A Theory of Medieval Poetic Form
Part Two
3. “A Certain Slant of Light”: Reenacting Danse macabre as Dance
4. “Dredful Fotyng”: Reenacting Danse macabre’s Poetic Form
Part Three
5. The Carole’s Virtual Circles
6. Dance on the Surface, Dance in the Depths: Reenacting Form in the Middle English Carol
Conclusion: Dance in the Margins, Dance in the Center
Acknowledgments
Index
Modern Language Association: MLA Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
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Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature | Romance Languages
Music: General Music
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