Grace, body and conscience

Authors

  • Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2011.3.10376

Keywords:

Graciosity, body, dance

Abstract

This article investigates the both elusive and allusive concept of grace or graciosity (Anmut), traditionally referred to dance and to the moving body of dancers. It analyses an inspiring text written by Heinrich von Kleist (1997) at the beginning of the XIXth century, named On the Marionette Theatre. This text is then articulated with some reflexions developed by the Portuguese philosopher José Gil (2001; 2002) on the body of the dancer, as well as with Henri Bergson’s (2001) discussions on mecanicity applied to the living body as a source of laughter. This exploration of Kleist’s theme of graciosity connected to the movements of dance leads us, two centuries after Kleist’s text, to new reflexions about the loss of a certain soul (delicious anachronical term) and of graciosity as correlated effects of a conscience more and more reflected in the spectacularized mirrors of image. 

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Author Biography

Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Graduada em Letras (Potuguês/Literatura) pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1976), graduada em Didática Especial de Língua Inglesa pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1977), mestre em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1982), mestre em Filosofia D E A - Universite de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne, 1986), doutora em Filosofia - Universite de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne, 1992), com pós-doutorados no Instituto Max-Planck de História da Ciência (Berlim, 2004) e no Centro de Pesquisa em Literatura e Cultura de Berlim (2007 e 2010). Professora Titular de Teoria da Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

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Ferraz, M. C. F. (2011). Grace, body and conscience. Revista FAMECOS, 18(3), 674–684. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2011.3.10376

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Vol. 18 No. 3 (2011): Imaginário e Tecnologias

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