Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Theisen, Bianca

Titel

Dancing with Words. Kleist's 'Marionette Theatre'

Ist Teil von

• MLN, 2006-04, Vol.121 (3), p.522-529

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• With its puzzling hypothesis that marionettes dance with more grace than human dancers, Heinrich von Kleist's essay "On The Marionette Theatre" outlines a mechanistic aesthetics of dance which departs from late 18th-century notions of dance as a natural expression of passions. Circling around empty spaces supplemented by variables, the essay displaces the semiosis of such empty spaces onto pseudo-theological and geometrical terms, proposing a world which displaces more traditional cosmological references onto a fictional version of the carved space of non-Euclidian geometry.