Heinrich von Kleist : artistic and political legacies / edited by Jeffrey L. High and Sophia Clark.

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, philosophic...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: High, Jeffrey L., Clark, Sophia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 170.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Heinrich von Kleist and His Legacy; Introduction: Heinrich von Kleist's Legacies; Kleist's Justice beyond Tears: Kohlhaasian Manifestos after Kleist; Reader Beware: Wild Right in Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas and Eichendorff's Das Schloß Dürande; The Legacy of Kleist's Language in Music: Schoeck, Wolf, Bachmann, and Henze; The Process of Inferential Contexts: Franz Kafka Reading Heinrich von Kleist; Like No Other? Thomas Mann and Kleist's Novellas.
  • A Michael Kohlhaas for the Post-Holocaust Era: Nelly Sachs' Eli. Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden IsraelsThe Puppet Inside: Reading Stuffing in Heiner Müller's Kleist; Kleist in the Reception of the Red Army Faction; Robert Walser, Christa Wolf, and Kleist on the Move: Portraits of the Writer on his Way to Writing; What Moves Kohlhaas? Terror in Heinrich von Kleist, E.L. Doctorow, and Christoph Hein; Causality and Contingency in Kleist's ""Das Bettelweib von Locarno""and Judith Hermann's ""Sommerhaus, später""
  • ""The Glazed Surface of Conviction"": The Motif of the Broken Jug in Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug and Ian McEwan's AtonementArtistic Reincarnations of the Author and his Texts: Adaptations of Kleist and Henriette Vogel's Double Suicide; No Home on Earth: Suicide in the Narrativesof Kleist and David Foster Wallace; Index.