UID:
almahu_9949702360002882
Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN:
9789401210300
Series Statement:
Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 170
Content:
In an authorial class with dramatists and authors of literary prose such as Goethe, Schiller, Thomas Mann, Brecht, and Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) remains prominent in international evaluations of artistic genius when measured by enduring popular and artistic reception; legal, philosophical, and scientific criticism; and resonance of political rage. Scholars have long been fascinated by Kleist's biography and works, in no small part due to his influence on authors, philosophers, political thinkers, and filmmakers, who regard Kleist as among the most accessible of "classic" artists - one whose relevance requires neither theoretical introduction nor literary-historical justification. The present volume addresses two centuries of engagement with Kleist and his works from an angle that has proven most important to their popular canonical status - his artistic and political legacies. What mattered to Kleist has mattered to centuries of readers, and thus all the more to artists and thinkers with similarly urgent messages to convey.
Note:
Includes index.
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Preliminary Material --
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Acknowledgments --
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Heinrich von Kleist and His Legacy /
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Heinrich von Kleist's Legacies /
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Kleist's Justice beyond Tears: Kohlhaasian Manifestos after Kleist /
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Reader Beware: Wild Right in Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas and Eichendorff's Das Schloß Dürande /
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The Legacy of Kleist's Language in Music: Schoeck, Wolf, Bachmann, and Henze /
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The Process of Inferential Contexts: Franz Kafka Reading Heinrich von Kleist /
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Like No Other? Thomas Mann and Kleist's Novellas /
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A Michael Kohlhaas for the Post-Holocaust Era: Nelly Sachs' Eli. Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels /
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The Puppet Inside: Reading Stuffing in Heiner Müller's Kleist /
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Kleist in the Reception of the Red Army Faction /
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Robert Walser, Christa Wolf, and Kleist on the Move: Portraits of the Writer on his Way to Writing /
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What Moves Kohlhaas? Terror in Heinrich von Kleist, E. L. Doctorow, and Christoph Hein /
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Causality and Contingency in Kleist's "Das Bettelweib von Locarno" and Judith Hermann's "Sommerhaus, später" /
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"The Glazed Surface of Conviction": The Motif of the Broken Jug in Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug and Ian McEwan's Atonement /
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Artistic Reincarnations of the Author and his Texts: Adaptations of Kleist and Henriette Vogel's Double Suicide /
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No Home on Earth: Suicide in the Narratives of Kleist and David Foster Wallace /
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Index of Names.
Additional Edition:
Print version: High, Jeffrey L. Heinrich von Kleist. Editions Rodopi 2013 ISBN 9789042037816
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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