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Kleist-Jahrbuch : im Auftrage des Vorstandes der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft.
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ISSN: 26290383 Year: 1982 Publisher: Berlin : Erich Schmidt Verlag,

The plays of Heinrich von Kleist : ideals and illusions
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ISBN: 0521495113 0521025044 0511519400 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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This is an accessible 1996 study of the plays of Kleist (1777-1811), who ranks with Goethe and Schiller amongst nineteenth-century authors and who has been a major influence on contemporary German writers. Seán Allan examines Kleist's critique of the aspirations of both Enlightenment and Romantic metaphysics, notably his suggestion that the pursuit of 'transcendent' ideals of perfection constitutes a formidable obstacle to genuine progress in human affairs. In so doing, he offers resolutions of a number of long-running controversies in Kleist criticism, as well as summarizing the state of research on all the plays. The book includes discussion of two plays usually neglected by scholars - Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and Die Hermannsschlacht. All quotations are given in both German and English and full references are given to published English translations of Kleist's works as well as to the German originals.

Kleist - ein moderner Aufklärer ?
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ISBN: 3892448981 Year: 2005 Publisher: Göttingen : Wallstein,


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Heinrich von Kleist's poetics of passivity
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ISBN: 1282795651 9786612795657 1571137424 1571134220 Year: 2009 Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,

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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.


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Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau : violence, identity, nation
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ISBN: 9781571135544 1571135545 9781571138415 1571138412 1283836475 Year: 2012 Publisher: Rochester, New York Camden House

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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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830 "18" VON KLEIST, HEINRICH --- 830 "18" VON KLEIST, HEINRICH Duitse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--VON KLEIST, HEINRICH --- Duitse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--VON KLEIST, HEINRICH --- von Kleist, Heinrich --- Rousseau, Jean Jacques --- Rouseau, Jan Jakub, --- Russo, Zhan Zhak, --- Rousseau, John James, --- Rūssū, Jān Jāk, --- Lu-so, --- Ru-xô, Giăng-Giá̆c, --- Rousseau, Jean Jaques, --- Rousseau, Jean Jeacques, --- Rousseau, J. J. --- Rusō, Jan Jakku, --- Rousseau, Gian Giacomo, --- Ruso, Z'an Z'aḳ, --- Rūcō, --- Citoyen de Genève, --- Citizen of Geneva, --- Roussō, --- Rousseau, --- Rūssō, --- Rousseau, Johann Jacob, --- Руссо, Жан-Жак, --- רוסא, זשאן־זשאק --- רוסא, י׳ן י׳ק, --- רוסו, זאאן זאאק, --- רוסו, ז׳אן־ז׳אק, --- روسو، چان چاك --- روسو، ژان ژاك --- 卢梭, --- Rousseau, Juan Jacobo, --- Rousseau, G. G. --- Ruso, Jan Jak, --- Rūsaw, Zhān Zhāk, --- Rūsū, Zhān Zhāk, --- 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. --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. --- Enlightenment thought. --- French Revolution. --- German literature. --- Heinrich von Kleist. --- Identity. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Napoleonic Wars. --- Nation. --- Violence. --- ethical discourse. --- modernist literature. --- political and ethical issues. --- political discourse. --- radical challenge. --- revolutionary age.

Heinrich von Kleist : eine Dichterrenaissance
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ISSN: 01744410 ISBN: 3484350962 3110910675 9783484350960 Year: 2004 Volume: 96 Publisher: Tübingen: Niemeyer,

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Den vermeintlich verkannten Dichtern, deren Werken und Schicksalen, galt das besondere Augenmerk der Autoren der beginnenden literarischen Moderne: Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) gehört zu diesen seit etwa 1880 emphatisch 'wiederentdeckten' Schriftstellern. In der vorliegenden Studie wird das bisher kaum untersuchte, gleichwohl aber sehr präsente Phänomen der Dichterrenaissancen am Beispiel dieses Autors aus wertungs- und sozialgeschichtlicher Perspektive analysiert. Der bis heute wirksame sogenannte 'Kleist-Mythos' kann so u.a. als das Resultat von zumeist von Schriftstellern unternommenen Bemühungen kenntlich gemacht werden, den tradierten Kanon deutscher Literatur durch einen Gegenkanon zu ersetzen.

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