Download or read book Dances of the Self in Heinrich Von Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffman and Heinrich Heine written by Lucia Ruprecht and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine brings to light little-known German resources on dance by juxtaposing cultural history with aesthetic theory and close readings of literary works. Joining performance studies with psychoanalytical theory, Lucia Ruprecht addresses dance as a performative exercise which constitutes a decisive force within the formation of subjectivity that is enacted in the literary texts.