Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

by Seeta Chaganti

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text.

Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022654804X
• ISBN13: 9780226548043
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"