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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

By Nicole Svobodny

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicole Svobodny, Svobodny Nicole
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781793653536
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-353-6
• Pagine: 386
• Serie: Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; 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