A companion to the works of Heinrich von Kleist
New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century.
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 258 pages ; 24 cm.
9781571131775, 1571131779
51195015
Introduction: Heinrich von Kleist's Life and Work - Bernd FischerJupiterists and Alkemists: Amphitryon as an Example of How Kleist's Texts Read Interpreters - Jeffery L. SammonsKleist's Penthesilea: Battleground of Gendered Discourses - Jost HermandOn Structures in Kleist - Anthony Stephens--til 7/03Strange News: Kleist's Novellas - Bianca TheisenThe Eye of the Beholder: Kleist's Visual Poetics of Knowledge - Hinrich C. SeebaThe Performative Turn of the Beautiful: "Free Play" of Language and the "Unspeakable Person" - Bernhard GreinerThe Facts of Life: Kleist's Challenge to Enlightenment Humanism (Lessing) - Helmut J. Schneider"Betwixt a false reason and none at all": Kleist, Hume, Kant, and the "Thing in Itself" - Tim MehiganChanging Color: Kleist's "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo" and the Discourses of Miscegenation - Susanne Zantop-DeceasedRipe Moments and False Climaxes: Thematic and Dramatic Configurations of the Theme of Death in Kleist's Works - "Mein ist die Rache spricht der Herr": Violence and Revenge in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist - Sean Allan