1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969091403321

Titolo

Cultures of forgery : making nations, making selves / / edited by Judith Ryan and Alfred Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2013]

©2003

ISBN

1-135-45827-8

0-203-95777-6

1-135-45820-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

CultureWork

Disciplina

364.16/3

Soggetti

Arts - Forgeries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Forging nations -- pt. 2. Forging selves.

Sommario/riassunto

In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973321503321

Autore

Volynskiĭ A. L. <1863-1926.>

Titolo

Ballet's magic kingdom : selected writings on dance in Russia, 1911-1925 / / Akim Volynsky ; translated, edited, and with an introduction and notes by Stanley J. Rabinowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612351914

1-282-35191-5

0-300-14249-8

1-282-08889-0

9786612088896

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RabinowitzStanley J

Disciplina

792.80947

Soggetti

Ballet - Russia (Federation) - History and criticism

Ballet - Russia (Federation) - History - 20th century

Ballet dancers - Russia (Federation) - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction: Akim Volynsky and His Writings on Dance -- 1. Reviews and Articles -- 2. The Book of Exaltations The ABCs of Classical Dance -- Glossary of Names -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and influential writings, provides a striking look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history.Stanley J. Rabinowitz selects and translates forty of Volynsky's articles-vivid, eyewitness accounts that sparkle with details about the careers and personalities of such dance luminaries as Anna Pavlova, Mikhail Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, and George Balanchine, at that time a young dancer in the Maryinsky company whose keen musical sense and creative interpretive power Volynsky was one of the first to recognize. Rabinowitz also translates Volynsky's magnum opus, The



Book of Exaltations, an elaborate meditation on classical dance technique that is at once a primer and an ideological treatise. Throughout his writings, Rabinowitz argues in his critical introduction, which sets Volynsky's life and work against the backdrop of the principal intellectual currents of his time, Volynsky emphasizes the spiritual and ethereal qualities of ballet.