Heinrich von Kleist
Camden House Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64014-096-7 (ISBN)
Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources both literary and philosophical, their role as paradigms, and the ways in which he responded to and often shattered them.
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen awareness of literary and philosophical traditions that allowed Kleist to shatter prevailing paradigms. Though little is known about what specifically Kleist read, the frequent allusions in his enduringly modern oeuvre indicate fruitful dialogues with both canonical and marginal works of European literature, spanning antiquity (The Old Testament, Sophocles), the Early Modern Period (Shakespeare, De Zayas), the late Enlightenment (Wieland, Goethe, Schiller), and the first eleven years of the nineteenth century (Mereau, Brentano, Collin). Kleist's works also evidence encounters with his philosophical precursors and contemporaries, including the ancient Greeks (Aristotle) and representatives of all phases of Enlightenment thought (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Ferguson, Spalding, Fichte, Kant, Hegel), economic theories (Smith, Kraus), and developments in anthropology, sociology, and law. This volume of new essays sheds light on Kleist's relationship to his literary and philosophical influences and on their function as paradigms to which his writings respond.
JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA. REBECCA STEWART received her M.A. in German Studies at CSULB and is pursuing her doctoral studies as an Ashford Fellow in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. REBECCA STEWART received her M.A. in German Studies at CSULB and is pursuing her doctoral studies as an Ashford Fellow in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. ELAINE CHEN is a PhD candidate in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, MA. PAUL MICHAEL LUETZELER is the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis where he has been teaching courses in German and Comparative Literature GAIL K. HART is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. STEVEN HOWE is Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Lucerne, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies. LISA BEESLEY is a Lecturer of German at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona JOHN A. MCCARTHY is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. JOHN T. HAMILTON is the William R. Kenan Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University. LAURA ANNA MACOR is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Verona. CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. JOHANNES ENDRES is Professor of Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of California, Riverside. BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University. KATRIN PAHL is Professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University, where she has also served as Co-Director of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Foreword: A Note on Kleist in American Art, Film, and Literature - Paul Michael Lützeler
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Kleist's Literary and Philosophical Paradigms = Jeffrey L. High, Rebecca Stewart, and Elaine Chen
Part I. Kleist's Literary Paradigms
In the Beginning: Kleist, Genesis, Kafka, and the Pursuit of Epistemological Salvation - Gail K. Hart
Just Violence? War, Law, and Politics in Kleist's Die Herrmannsschlacht and Shakespeare's Henry V - Steven Howe
The Mereau-Brentano Translations of María de Zayas's "Spanish Novellas" and Kleist's Prose Works - Jeffrey L. High and Lisa Beesley
The Old and the New: Christoph Martin Wieland and Kleist on Parteigeist - John A. McCarthy
Receptions, Homages, and Anti-Occupational Allegories of Autonomy: The Case of Schiller's Bohemian Cup and Kleist's Broken Jug - Jeffrey L. High and Elaine Chen
Anti-Napoleonic Rage and the Hope for a Better Future: Collin between Schiller and Kleist - Rebecca Stewart
Part II: Kleist's Philosophical Paradigms
Fiat claritas et pereat opus: Equity and the Limits of Rectification in Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas - John T. Hamilton
Kleist, Johann Joachim Spalding and the Bestimmung des Menschen: Philosophy as a Way of Life? - Laura Anna Macor
War Games: Kleist, Adam Ferguson, and the Cultural Poetics of Play - Christian Moser
Economic Concepts and Authorial Self-Design in Heinrich von Kleist's Letters - Johannes Endres
Gender and the Politics of Recognition in Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right and Kleist's Amphitryon - Bernd Fischer
Kleist and Haiti - With and Beyond Hegel - Katrin Pahl
Notes on the Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.04.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture |
| Co-Autor | Professor Paul Michael Lützeler |
| Verlagsort | Columbia, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 599 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64014-096-4 / 1640140964 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64014-096-7 / 9781640140967 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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