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Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Lucia Ruprecht's study is the first monograph in English to analyse
the relationship between nineteenth-century German literature and
theatrical dance. Combining cultural history with close readings of
major texts by Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich
Heine, the author brings to light little-known German resources on
dance to address the theoretical implications of examining the
interdiscursive and intermedial relations between the three
authors' literary works, aesthetic reflections on dance, and dance
of the period. In doing so, she not only shows how dancing and
writing relate to one another but reveals the characteristics that
make each mode of expression distinct unto itself. Readings engage
with literary modes of understanding physical movement that are
neglected under the regime of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory,
and of classical ballet, setting the human, frail and expressive
body against the smoothly idealised neoclassicist ideal.
Particularly important is the way juxtaposing texts and performance
practice allows for the emergence of meta-discourses about trauma
and repetition and their impact on aesthetics and formulations of
the self and the human body. Related to this is the author's
concept of performative exercises or dances of the self which
constitute a decisive force within the formation of subjectivity
that is enacted in the literary texts. Joining performance studies
with psychoanalytical theory, this book opens up new pathways for
understanding Western theatrical dance's theoretical, historical
and literary continuum.
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