Eva Palmer Sikelianos : a life in ruins /
The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for revivin...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; Chapter 1: Sapphic Performances; The Implications of Reading Sappho; "Old Things Are Becoming New"; "Charming Tableau"; "Going Back with Knowledge"; "If I Can Ever Sing to You"; "My Orchard in Mytellini"; Chapter 2: Weaving; "One Handwoven Dress"; "Beautiful, Statuesque Girl, Heroine of Two Social Continents"; The "Anadromic Method" and Experimental Replication; "My Happiness Hangs on a Thread"; "The Key to the Matter Is the Loom!"; Chapter 3: Patron of Byzantine Music
- The "Musical Question" and the OresteiakaPenelope Sikelianos Duncan; After Penelope; Konstantinos Psachos and the Field of Greek Music; Eva Sikelianos in the Field of Greek Music; Patron of Greek Music; Lessons from India's Decolonization Movement; Chapter 4: Drama; Isadora Duncan's "Multiple Oneness," 1903; Atalanta in Bar Harbor, 1905; Delphic Visions on Mount Parnassus, Early 1920s; Prometheus Bound in Delphi, 1927; The Persians at Jacob's Pillow, 1939; Chapter 5: Writing; Upward Panic; The Loom Is the Key (Again); "Politics"; Translating Angelos Sikelianos's Act of Resistance
- Angelos's Akritika Thrusts Eva into Politics"Greek Home- Coming Year"; Epilogue: Recollecting a Life; Appendix: Cast of Characters; Notes; References; Index
