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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.

The poetics of death : the short prose of Kleist and Balzac
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ISBN: 0585042934 9780585042930 0791430235 0791430243 1438405200 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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