UID:
almahu_9949703286802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9783846765746
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9783770565740
Series Statement:
Schöningh and Fink Literature and Culture Studies E-Books, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9783657100255
Content:
Kleist has fascinated readers like no other German writer. How did a one-time soldier with an unremarkable literary education become one of the greatest innovators of German literature? What allows for the tragedy of his life? In what ways does his work speak to us today? In his great biography Günter Blamberger gives us a new Kleist: Unlike conventional approaches, he does not try to understand Kleist's life from the perspective of its end-from the perspective of his suicide as the final catastrophe of a life in permanent crisis. Rather, he remains at eye-level with Kleist's present, narrating from the perspective of Kleist's experience-in the moment with him-capturing the unsettling or the astonishing in each phase of his life, the explosive nature of each one of his risky experiments in living and writing. The result is an indispensable work of German literary history-a vivid, captivating biography of one of the greatest literary geniuses of all time.
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Preliminary Material /
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Copyright page /
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Chapter I Dead or Alive? /
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Chapter II Noblesse Oblige /
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Chapter III Science or Fiction? /
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Chapter IV The Misused Love Letters /
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Chapter V "I Felt as Though I Were Entering on a New Life" /
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Chapter VI On the Gradual Fabrication of the Writer and His Works /
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Chapter VII The Lost Years? /
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Chapter VIII Distorting the World to the Point of Recognition /
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Chapter IX The Laurels and the Torch /
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Chapter X Losing Control /
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Chapter XI On the German Michel and Stimmung /
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Chapter XII Economy and Aneconomy of Sacrifice /
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Chapter XIII "Only Whatever Does Not Cease to Hurt Stays in the Memory" /
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Chapter XIV On Kleist's Fascination with Risk /
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Notes /
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Works Cited /
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Index of Names /
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Photograph and Image Credits /
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Acknowledgements /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Heinrich von Kleist : The Biography. Translated from German by Sebastian Goth and Kelly Kawar. Paderborn : Brill | Fink, 2021 ISBN 9783770565740
Language:
English
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