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Editing --- Kleist, Heinrich von, --- Criticism, Textual --- 82.083 --- 830 "18" VON KLEIST, HEINRICH --- Authorship --- Teksteditie. Editiewetenschap --- Duitse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--VON KLEIST, HEINRICH --- Kleist, Heinrich von --- -Criticism, Textual --- Editing. --- 830 "18" VON KLEIST, HEINRICH Duitse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--VON KLEIST, HEINRICH --- 82.083 Teksteditie. Editiewetenschap --- Kleist, Heinrich von, - 1777-1811 - Criticism, Textual --- Kleist, Heinrich von, - 1777-1811

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Controversial during his lifetime as well as among today's scholars and critics, the German dramatist and writer of novellas Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) remains an enigma. Was he a Romantic or a Classic? A conservative or a liberal? What is his status in the literary canon? Because of their enigmatic qualities, Kleist's writings have attracted the attention of critics and theorists from well beyond the narrow confines of German literary studies: comparatists, historians, philosophers, legal scholars, and even musicologists and dance historians. And outside academia his writings are as popular as ever. This book scrutinizes for the first time a key element in Kleist's thought and poetic process: his obsession with the problem of passivity. Scholars have long been attracted to the dynamic, larger-than-life characters in Kleist's fiction and drama, overlooking the fact that Kleist's works often turn on moments of stasis, as these same protagonists are suddenly and sometimes brutally rendered passive. Through a careful, historically grounded, and original investigation incorporating extensive primary research in late-Enlightenment natural philosophy and eighteenth-century medical practices, the study sheds light on these nodal points in Kleist's work, contending that these structures of passivity are so pervasive and so systematic in his work that they can justifiably and profitably be viewed as constituting a kind of poetics. Steven R. Huff is associate professor in the Department of German at Oberlin College.

Passivity (Psychology) in literature. --- Kleist, Heinrich von, --- Kleĭst, Genrikh, --- Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von, --- Kleist, H. V. --- Ḳlaisṭ, Hainrikh fun, --- קלייסט, היינריך --- קלייסט, היינריך פון, --- קלייסט, הינריך פון, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- von Kleist, Heinrich

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Heinrich von Kleist is renowned as an author who posed a radical challenge to the orthodoxies of his age. Today, his works are frequently seen to relentlessly deconstruct the paradigms of Idealism and to reflect a Romantic, even postmodern, perspective on the ambiguities of the world. Such a view fails, however, to do full justice to the more complex manner in which Kleist articulates the tensions between the securities of Enlightenment thought and the anxieties of the revolutionary age. Steven Howe offers a new angle on Kleist's dialogue with the Enlightenment by reconsidering his investment in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Where previous critics have trivialized this as intense but fleeting and born of personal identification, Howe here establishes Rousseau's importance as a lasting source of inspiration for the violent constellations of Kleist's fiction. Taking account of both Rousseau's critique of modernity and his later propositions for working toward the Enlightenment promise of emancipation, the book locates a mode of discourse which, placed in the historical context of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, sheds new light on the political and ethical issues at play in Kleist's work. Steven Howe is Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He is co-editor, with Ricarda Schmidt and Seán Allan, of 'Heinrich von Kleist: Konstruktive und Destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt' (forthcoming, 2012).

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Since an account of every known staging would require several volumes, Kleist on Stage is limited to major productions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland that attracted more than the usual press coverage, and to interpretations and adaptations outside the German-speaking countries. Reeve presents a chronological stage history of each of the plays, beginning with Die Familie Schroffenstein and ending with Prinz Friedrich von Homburg. He also discusses some of the problems faced by a director attempting to put a Kleistian drama on stage, and pleads for greater understanding and cooperation between the academic and theatrical traditions.

Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- History. --- Kleist, Heinrich von, --- Kleĭst, Genrikh, --- Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von, --- Kleist, H. V. --- Ḳlaisṭ, Hainrikh fun, --- קלייסט, היינריך --- קלייסט, היינריך פון, --- קלייסט, הינריך פון, --- Stage history. --- Dramatic production. --- von Kleist, Heinrich