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Zusatztext ?adds an important facet to the discussion in the field and encourages a more comparative view on this topic. Informationen zum Autor Thomas O. Beebee is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German! Penn State University! USA. He is the author of Millennial Literatures of the Americas! 1492-2002 (Oxford University Press! 2008)! Epistolary Fiction in Europe (Cambridge University Press! 1999)! The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability (Penn State Press! 1994) and Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction (Penn State Press! 1990). Klappentext Among Western literatures! only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe! Hoffmann! Kleist! Kafka! Schmitt! and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars. This book traces a history of the sometimes fraught relationship between German law and literature in the modern period! from Grimm to Schmitt. Traces a history of the sometimes fraught relationship between German law and literature in the modern period, from Grimm to Schmitt. Zusammenfassung Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars. This book traces a history of the sometimes fraught relationship between German law and literature in the modern period, from Grimm to Schmitt. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1.1 Introduction 1.2 Subsystem or Public Sphere? 2.1 In Search of the Invisible Precedent: Grimm Writes to Savigny 2.2 Kant! Codification! and Goethe's Elective Affinities 3.1 A Recursive Process: Kafka's Law - and Ours 3.2 Walter Benjamin reads the Weimar Constitution 3.3 From Schiller to Schund: Zensur and the Canonization of Literature 3.4 German Literature Fights for its Rights: A Thick Description of an Incident of Weimar Literary Culture 4.1 Carl Schmitt and/as Benito Cereno 4.2 Citation as Second-Order Observation: Peter Weiss's The Investigation ConclusionWorks Cited ...
