Dances of the self in Heinrich von Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffman and Heinrich Heine /
Ruprecht, Lucia,1972-
Aldershot, England : Ashgate Pub.,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-153) and index.
Dance, writing and trauma -- Ballet and the neoclassicist tradition -- Dances of the self -- Figures of the text -- Heinrich von Kleist and the mechanics of grace -- Aesthetics and dance c.1800 -- Grace and affectation in Über das Marionettentheater -- Kleist's law of movement -- E.T.A. Hoffmann and the true art of dance -- Hoffmann on dance -- Performances of trauma in Der Sandmann -- The dancing self in Prinzessin Brambilla -- Heinrich Heine and the new language of the body -- Neoclassicism, ballet, and Heine's cultural theory of dance -- Dances of mourning : Laurence and Giselle -- Speaking dancing.
Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811
Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822
Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856
Dance
Dance in literature.