Modernism After the Ballets Russes - Movement in the British Theatre

About the author

Gabriela Minden is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. She completed her BA in English Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she received the ES Carrigan Prize for graduate study in English. She then read for MSt and DPhil degrees at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the 2022 Swapna Dev Memorial Book Prize, for the best DPhil thesis examined in the Oxford English Faculty. Before joining Durham, she was a lecturer at Cardiff University.

Summary

Modernism After the Ballets Russes examines the philosophical conditions of early twentieth-century Britain's theatrical landscape, marked by growing interest in Nietzschean interpretations of classical drama and Wagnerian notions of the Gesamtkunstwerk, to illuminate the allure of the Ballets Russes's re-centring of dance.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriela Minden, Gabriela (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Minden
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.08.2025
• EAN: 9780198951674
• ISBN: 978-0-19-895167-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary