Bernd Fischer

A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Von Kleist

Herausgeber: Fischer, Bernd

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781571134516
• ISBN-10: 1571134514
• Artikelnr.: 28895991

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Heinrich von Kleist's Life and Work
Bernd Fischer Jupiterists and Alkemists: Amphitryon as an Example of How Kleist's Texts Read Interpreters
Jeffery L. Sammons Kleist's Penthesilea: Battleground of Gendered Discourses
Jost Hermand On Structures in Kleist
Anthony Stephens
til 7/03 Strange News: Kleist's Novellas
Bianca Theisen The Eye of the Beholder: Kleist's Visual Poetics of Knowledge
Hinrich C. Seeba The Performative Turn of the Beautiful: "Free Play" of Language and the "Unspeakable Person"
Bernhard Greiner The 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 Mehigan Changing Color: Kleist's "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo" and the Discourses of Miscegenation
Susanne Zantop
Deceased Ripe 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