caa a22 4500 38630971X CHVBK 20180307111541.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1478811 doi S0149767700010202 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1478811 Shaw Mary Lewis Ephemeral Signs: Apprehending the Idea through Poetry and Dance [Elektronische Daten] [Mary Lewis Shaw] Though his dance criticism constitutes no more than a few pages, the nineteenth-century poet Stéphane Mallarmé has come to be considered an important dance theorist. His dance essays set forth a complex and original view of dance as a poetry of the body and prefigure contemporary efforts to study dance as a system of signs. Mallarmé's prose style is, however, notoriously obscure and resistant to translation. Thus despite the power and beauty of their literary expression, his ideas on dance remain largely inaccessible without critical examination. Through a close reading and translation of several of his key passages on dance, this essay will seek to clarify his theory of the aesthetico-metaphysical function of dance and his concept of its relationship to his own art, poetry. Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1988 Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 20/1(1988), 3-9 0149-7677 20:1<3 1988 20 DRJ https://doi.org/10.2307/1478811 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1478811 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Shaw Mary Lewis NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 20/1(1988), 3-9 0149-7677 20:1<3 1988 20 DRJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge