Abstract
Kleist's essay 'On the Marionette Theatre" makes the point that the mechanical movements of the puppets when in harmony with the puppeteer's manipulation, are more gracious and aesthetic than any living dancer. This is due to the fact that the puppets are a projection of the puppeteer's unconscious. The aesthetics of movement in this essay are encoded in the poetics of Kleist's lyrical drama, Penthesilea, in which the heroine 'flies' around the stage in a movement similar to the puppets, but the movement is an effect of language, which has its origins in the unconscious and the death drive. Using a Classical mythological plot, Kleist transforms myth into mythopoetics to give expression to emotions as the actual substance of 'history'.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes |
| Subtitle of host publication | Essays In Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn |
| Editors | Alessandro Achilli, Dmytro Yesypenko, Serhy Yekelchyk |
| Place of Publication | Boston USA |
| Publisher | Academic Studies Press |
| Pages | 72-87 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781644693025, 9781644693766 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781644693018 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- puppets, myth, mythopoesis, unconscious, death drive, Romanticism, history
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