A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Professor Bernd Fischer, Seán Allan, Susanne Zantop, Tim Mehigan, Anthony Stephens, Professor Bernd Fischer, Bernhard Greiner, Bianca Theisen, Helmut J. Schneider, Hinrich C. Seeba, Professor Emeritus Jeffrey L Sammons, Jost Hermand.
• Editors: Professor, Fischer, Professor Bernd
• Other Names: Allan, Seán contributor.; Zantop, Susanne contributor.; Mehigan, Tim contributor.; Stephens, Anthony contributor.; Professor Fischer, Professor Bernd contributor.; Greiner, Bernhard contributor.; Theisen, Bianca contributor.; Schneider, Helmut J contributor.; Seeba, Hinrich C contributor.; Professor Emeritus Sammons, Professor Emeritus Jeffrey L contributor.; Hermand, Jost contributor.
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Rochester : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571136176; 1571136177
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