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Introduction: Heinrich von Kleist’s Life and Work
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Bernd Fischer
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: Heinrich von Kleist’s Life and Work 1
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Critical Approaches
- Jupiterists and Alkmenists: Amphitryon as an Example of How Kleist’s Texts Read Interpreters 21
- Kleist’s Penthesilea: Battleground of Gendered Discourses 43
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Language and Form
- On Structures in Kleist 63
- Strange News: Kleist’s Novellas 81
- The Eye of the Beholder: Kleist’s Visual Poetics of Knowledge 103
- The Performative Turn of the Beautiful: “Free Play” of Language and the “Unspeakable Person” 123
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Intellectual Paradigms
- The Facts of Life: Kleist’s Challenge to Enlightenment Humanism (Lessing) 141
- “Betwixt a false reason and none at all”: Kleist, Hume, Kant, and the “Thing in Itself” 165
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Themes and Motifs
- Changing Color: Kleist’s “Die Verlobung in St. Domingo” and the Discourses of Miscegenation 191
- Ripe Moments and False Climaxes: Thematic and Dramatic Configurations of the Theme of Death in Kleist’s Works 209
- “Mein ist die Rache spricht der Herr”: Violence and Revenge in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist 227
- Contributors 249
- Index 251
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: Heinrich von Kleist’s Life and Work 1
-
Critical Approaches
- Jupiterists and Alkmenists: Amphitryon as an Example of How Kleist’s Texts Read Interpreters 21
- Kleist’s Penthesilea: Battleground of Gendered Discourses 43
-
Language and Form
- On Structures in Kleist 63
- Strange News: Kleist’s Novellas 81
- The Eye of the Beholder: Kleist’s Visual Poetics of Knowledge 103
- The Performative Turn of the Beautiful: “Free Play” of Language and the “Unspeakable Person” 123
-
Intellectual Paradigms
- The Facts of Life: Kleist’s Challenge to Enlightenment Humanism (Lessing) 141
- “Betwixt a false reason and none at all”: Kleist, Hume, Kant, and the “Thing in Itself” 165
-
Themes and Motifs
- Changing Color: Kleist’s “Die Verlobung in St. Domingo” and the Discourses of Miscegenation 191
- Ripe Moments and False Climaxes: Thematic and Dramatic Configurations of the Theme of Death in Kleist’s Works 209
- “Mein ist die Rache spricht der Herr”: Violence and Revenge in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist 227
- Contributors 249
- Index 251