ABSTRACT

In this new research monograph, Tudor Balinsteanu draws on concepts of dance to demonstrate how the nonhuman is dealt with in terms of practical politics, that is, choreographies of social performance which emerge at the intersection of literature, art, and embodied life. Drawing on a number of influential texts by William Wordsworth, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce, this truly interdisciplinary monograph explores the relations between the human and the nonhuman across centuries of literature and as demonstrated in philosophical concepts and social experiments.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|20 pages

Bruno Latour

The Traditional Subject and the Articulated Body amidst Statements, Propositions, and Compositions

chapter 2|18 pages

Dance and the Social Language of Action

chapter 4|19 pages

Confronting the Capitalist Unconscious

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

chapter 6|21 pages

Yeats’s Dancers Dancing

chapter 7|18 pages

Joyce’s Choreographies of Gesture

chapter 8|15 pages

Choreographies of Social Performance

chapter |16 pages

Conclusion