The Stony Dance: Unity and Gesture in Andrey Bely's Petersburg

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The Stony Dance Northwestern University Press Studies in Russian Literature and Theory Series Editors Robert Belknap Caryl Emerson Gary Saul Morson William Mills Todd III Andrew Wachtel The Stony Dance UNITY AND GESTURE IN ANDREY BELY’S PETERSBURG Timothy Langen northwestern university press / evanston, illinois Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois 60208-4170 Copyright © 2005 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2005. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 0-8101-2224-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Langen, Timothy. The stony dance : unity and gesture in Andrey Bely’s Petersburg / Timothy Langen. p. cm. — (Studies in Russian literature and theory) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8101-2224-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Bely, Andrey, 1880–1934. Peterburg. I. Title. II. Series. PG3453.B84P5348 2005 891.73´3—dc22 2004026515 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. To my parents ...