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

Heinrich Kleist's life and work, Bernd Fischer; Jupiterists and Alkmenists - "Amphitryon" as an example of how Kleist's texts read interpreters, Jeffrey L. Sammons; Kleist's "Penthesilea", Jost Hermand; on structures in Kleist, Anthony Stephens; 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, 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, Suzanne Zantop; ripe moments and false climaxes, Hilda M. Brown; of Heinrich von Kleist, Sean Allan.

Product details

• Authors: Bernd Fischer, Lost Hermand, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Anthony Stephens
• Assisted by: Bernd Fischer (Editor)
• Publisher: Camden House
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 530 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies