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.

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Bernd Fischer
• Assisted by: Bernd Fischer (Editor), Bernd (Customer) Fischer (Editor), Professor Bernd (Contributor) Fischer (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9781571134516
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-451-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 418 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Deutsch, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren