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Heinrich von Kleist: Style and Concept

Explorations of Literary Dissonance
  • Edited by: Dieter Sevin and Christoph Zeller
Languages: English, German
Published/Copyright: 2013
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The impact of Heinrich von Kleist unfolds between precise depictions and moral extremes. Crystallized in words, his characters appear as paradigms of human fallibility. Their passions and obsessions, their inadequacies and longings are captured in a writing style that reveals its influence even in novels and plays of the twentieth century. This volume takes the literary reception of Kleist as one of its focal points and, furthermore, considers the author's oeuvre and his life on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death.

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Dieter Sevin and Christoph Zeller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Table of Contents

    vii
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    Introduction

    1
    Christoph Zeller
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  • Life and Fiction
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    Science oder fiction?

    17
    Günter Blamberger
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    Geschichte einer Seele

    35
    Hinrich C. Seeba
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    „Wie gebrechlich ist der Mensch“

    45
    Sören Steding
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  • Language and Media
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    Materialität und Figürlichkeit in Kleists Das Erdbeben in Chili

    61
    Helena Elshout
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    Bombenpost

    81
    Wolf Kittler
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    “Andre Umstände”

    101
    Scott Abbott
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    “Ach!”

    113
    John B. Lyon
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  • Text and Intertext
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    Schiller, Freude, Kleist, and Rache

    123
    Jeffrey L. High
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    Proben des Tragischen

    147
    Bernhard Greiner
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    Tragödie für ein zukünftiges Theater

    161
    Mike Hiegemann
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  • Philosophy and Justice
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    Gerechtigkeit erzählen oder Kleist vor Gericht

    181
    Bernd Fischer
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    Kleist and Kant

    201
    Claudia Brodsky
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    Improvisation, Agency, Autonomy

    211
    Edgar Landgraf
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    The Legacy of Enlightenment Anthropology and the Construction of the Primitive Other in Kleist’s Die Verlobung in St. Domingo

    231
    Carl Niekerk
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  • Affect and Emotion
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    Affektive Exzesse bei Kleist

    247
    Rolf-Peter Janz
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    „Er wußte nicht warum“

    257
    Christine Kanz
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    “Das Gefühl des Rechts”

    271
    Pascale LaFountain
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  • Music
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    Kleist und Beethoven als ‚Generation Napoleon‘ oder Ästhetische Darstellungen von Gewalt

    287
    Peter Höyng
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    That’s the Gospel Truth

    301
    Lisa Beesley
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    “Jetzt trösten, jetzt verletzen seine Klänge”

    313
    Amy Emm
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    Recovered Voices

    325
    Laurie Johnson
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  • Reception
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    Bernhard’s Die Jagdgesellschaft

    341
    John Pizer
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    Höchste Kunstfertigkeit, nicht ohne Anteilnahme

    355
    Johann Holzner
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    „Ich will nichts wissen“

    363
    Waltraud Maierhofer and Ambika Athreya
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    Die Gegenwärtigkeit Heinrich von Kleists

    379
    Christian Kohlross
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    Bibliography

    389
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    Index of Names and Titles

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eBook published on:
April 30, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9783110270501
Hardcover published on:
April 17, 2013
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110270471
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422
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110270501
eBook ISBN: 9783110270501
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110270471
Keywords for this book
Heinrich von Kleist; Postmodernism
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Scholars of Literary and German Studies
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