Author : Hilda Meldrum Brown
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Kleist and the Tragic Ideal by : Hilda Meldrum Brown
Download or read book Kleist and the Tragic Ideal written by Hilda Meldrum Brown and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kleist's tragedy Penthesilea is approached from various angles, including the biographical and literary-historical one, to place it in the context of German drama ca. 1800. A detailed critical analysis is provided in which emphasis is laid on imagery, style and techniques of presentation of the tragic issues. On this basis the view is advanced that in Penthesilea Kleist succeeded in solving the problems which had prevented his achieving a «grand tragedy» with «Robert Guiscard», by creating a unique substitute for Choric commentary in the form of «gradualistic» commentaries on the action, strategically presented by certain characters, principally by means of key-images.