Nijinsky''s Feeling Mind - The Dancer Writes, the Writer Dances

The first in-depth study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing, this book combines textual analysis and literary theory with intellectual biography to elucidate the dancer's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. This interdisciplinary study explores the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part I: From Stage to Page
1. Trance Dance
2. Walking and Talking
3. Predator-Prey
Part II: A Life in Books and Magazines
4. Reading Nijinsky Reading
5. Dancing the Tightrope Between World of Art and Feeling
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Nicole Svobodny is senior lecturer in global studies at Washington University in St. Louis and coeditor of Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age and Under the Sky of My Africa.

Summary

The first in-depth study of Vaslav Nijinsky's life-writing, this book combines textual analysis and literary theory with intellectual biography to elucidate the dancer's riffs on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. This interdisciplinary study explores the modernist contexts from which the dancer-writer emerged at the end of World War I.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Svobodny, Svobodny Nicole
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781793653536
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-353-6
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Russia, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, HISTORY / World, Ballet, Literary studies: general, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Classical style, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet