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Book Synopsis The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist by : Robert E. Helbling
Download or read book The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist written by Robert E. Helbling and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare--a politically explosive murder trial in the middle of the Vietnam War.
Book Synopsis Penthesilea by : Heinrich von Kleist
Download or read book Penthesilea written by Heinrich von Kleist and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-11-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state with new female offspring. They blast into the midst of the Trojan War, confusing Greeks and Trojans alike and for a moment forcing those enemies into a terrified alliance. When Achilles, the pride and mainstay of the Greeks, and Penthesilea (Pen-te-sil-lay-uh), queen of the Amazons, meet, a chase begins, The like of which not even the wildest storms Set loose to thunder across the plain of heaven Have yet presented to the astonished world, and it is the queen who is hunting Achilles, to the uncomprehending horror of the Greeks. Thus begins a tragedy of love in a world governed by the rules of war, on which "the gods look down but from afar." For the first time, in this splendidly illustrated book, an English translation recreates the audaity, romance, and poetry of one of the strangest and most beautiful works of Western literature.
Book Synopsis Trials and Tribunals in the Dramas of Heinrich Von Kleist by : Kim Fordham
Download or read book Trials and Tribunals in the Dramas of Heinrich Von Kleist written by Kim Fordham and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the trial so appealing as dramatic form? Why do we watch? Is it simply the quest for truth and justice? Or is it much more than that? From the time of Sophocles, the court has fascinated audiences and dramatists alike. Kleist is no exception, as each of his dramas and many of his stories and anecdotes contain a trial of some sort from its most primitive form of hand-to-hand combat in the duel to more conventional legal proceedings in secular, military and ecclesiastical courts. At trial, we desire, whether consciously or unconsciously, to have our own system of beliefs and behaviours affirmed rather than to attempt to achieve justice: self-interest prevails at the expense of truth and equity. The focus of this book is the tension between the restoration of dikê, the balance of natural order, and the pursuit of truth and justice as impetus behind the trial. With recourse to the concept of legal instrumentalism, which underscores this preference for order over justice in both the law and literature, the author examines Kleist's dramas to determine the extent to which those individuals in positions of power are able to manipulate the proceedings, seeking not justice and truth, but rather the validation of their own particular version of order. The trial, a tool generally thought to be designed to discover truth and to mete out justice, is used instead, in the hands of the powerful, as an instrument of control and degradation.
Book Synopsis Selected Writings by : Heinrich von Kleist
Download or read book Selected Writings written by Heinrich von Kleist and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most ambitious of its kind.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Herrmann by : Heinrich von Kleist
Download or read book The Battle of Herrmann written by Heinrich von Kleist and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 2008 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Von Kleist by : Bernd Fischer
Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Von Kleist written by Bernd Fischer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and performed German authors. His status in the literary canon is firmly established, but he has always been one of Germany's most contentiously discussed authors. Today's critical debate on his unique prose narratives and dramas is as heated as ever. Many critics regard Kleist as a lone presager of the aesthetics and philosophies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century modernism. Yet there can be no question that he responds in his works and letters to the philosophical, aesthetic, and political debates of his time. During the last thirty years, the scholarship on Kleist's work and life has departed from the existentialist wave of the 1950s and early 1960s and opened up new avenues for coming to terms with his unusual talent. The present volume brings together the most important and innovative of these newer scholarly approaches: the essays include critically informed, up-to-date interpretations of Kleist's most-discussed stories and dramas. Other contributions analyze Kleist's literary means and styles and their theoretical underpinnings. They include articles on Kleist's narrative and theatrical technique, poetic and aesthetic theory, philosophical and political thought, and insights from new biographical research. Contributors: Jeffrey L. Sammons, Jost Hermand, Anthony Stephens, Bianca Theisen, Hinrich C. Seeba, Bernhard Greiner, Helmut J. Schneider, Tim Mehigan, Susanne Zantop, Hilda M. Brown, and Seán Allan. Bernd Fischer is Professor of German and Head of the Department of German at Ohio State University.
Book Synopsis The Soliloquy in the Dramas of Heinrich Von Kleist by : Lucy Mary Will
Download or read book The Soliloquy in the Dramas of Heinrich Von Kleist written by Lucy Mary Will and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist by : Robert E. Helbling
Download or read book The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist written by Robert E. Helbling and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightmare--a politically explosive murder trial in the middle of the Vietnam War.
Book Synopsis Heinrich Von Kleist and Modernity (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) by : Bernd Fischer
Download or read book Heinrich Von Kleist and Modernity (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) written by Bernd Fischer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays employing a multitude of approaches to the works of Kleist, in the process shedding light on our present modernity. Modernity, according to some views, poses the problem of homo politicus -- the problem of how to act in a moral universe without a "master narrative," without a final foundation. From this angle, the oeuvre of Heinrich vonKleist -- novellas, dramas, and essays -- addresses problems emerging from a new universe of Kantian provenance, in many ways the same universe we inhabit today. This volume of new essays investigates Kleist's position in ourever-changing conception of modernity, employing aesthetic, narrative, philosophical, biographical, political, economic, anthropological, psychological, and cultural approaches and wrestling with the difficulties of historicizingKleist's life and work. Central questions are: To what extent can the multitude of breaking points and turning points, endgames and pre-games, ruptures and departures that permeate Kleist's work and biography be conceptually bundled together and linked to the emerging paradigm of modernity? And to what extent does such an approach to Kleist not only advance understanding of this major German writer and his work, but also shed light on the nature of our present modernity? Contributors: Seán Allan, Peter Barton, Hilda Meldrum Brown, David Chisholm, Andreas Gailus, Bernhard Greiner, Jeffrey L. High, Anette Horn, Peter Horn, Wolf Kittler, Jonathan W. Marshall, Christian Moser, Dorothea von Mücke, Nancy Nobile, David Pan, Ricarda Schmidt, Helmut J. Schneider. Bernd Fischer is Professor of German at the Ohio State University. Tim Mehigan is Professor of German in the Department of Languagesand Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Book Synopsis The Broken Jug by : Heinrich von Kleist
Download or read book The Broken Jug written by Heinrich von Kleist and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy that mocks the failings of human nature and the judicial system in a forgiving way.
Book Synopsis The Marquise of O– by : Heinrich Von Kleist
Download or read book The Marquise of O– written by Heinrich Von Kleist and published by Pushkin Collection. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid new translation of a timeless classic: Kleist's tense, ambiguous novella about an unexpected pregnancy In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town's citadel, in which several Russian soldiers tried to assault her before she was rescued by Count F-, at which point she fell unconscious. Thrown out of her father's house, Julietta publishes an announcement in the local newspaper stating that she is pregnant and would like the father of her child to make himself known so that she can marry him. What follows is an ambiguously comic drama of sexuality and family respectability. One of Kleist's best-loved works, The Marquise of O- is an ingenious and timeless story of the mystery of human desire, and Nicholas Jacobs's new translation captures the full richness of its irony.
Book Synopsis Sex Changes with Kleist by : Katrin Pahl
Download or read book Sex Changes with Kleist written by Katrin Pahl and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex Changes with Kleist analyzes how the dramatist and poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) responded to the change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred in the eighteenth century. Specifically, Katrin Pahl shows that Kleist resisted the shift from a one-sex to the two-sex and complementary gender system that is still prevalent today. With creative close readings engaging all eight of his plays, Pahl probes Kleist’s appreciation for incoherence, his experimentation with alternative symbolic orders, his provocative understanding of emotion, and his camp humor. Pahl demonstrates that rather than preparing modern homosexuality, Kleist puts an end to modern gender norms even before they take hold and refuses the oppositional organization of sexual desire into homosexual and heterosexual that sprouts from these norms. Focusing on the theatricality of Kleist’s interventions in the performance of gender, sexuality, and emotion and examining how his dramatic texts unhinge major tenets of classical European theater, Sex Changes with Kleist is vital reading for anyone interested in queer studies, feminist studies, performance studies, literary studies, or emotion studies. This book changes our understanding of Kleist and breathes new life into queer thought.
Book Synopsis Heinrich Von Kleist: Writing After Kant (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) by : Timothy J. Mehigan
Download or read book Heinrich Von Kleist: Writing After Kant (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) written by Timothy J. Mehigan and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kleist viewed anew as a major contributor to the tradition of post-Kantian thought. The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered. The present study aims to reassess this question, particularly in the light of Kant's rising importance for the humanities today. It argues not only that Kleist was influenced by Kant, but also that he may be understood as a Kantian, albeit an unorthodox one. The volume integrates material previously published by the author, now updated, with new chapters to form a greater whole. What results is a coherent set of approaches that illuminates the question of Kleist's Kantianism from different points of view. Kleist is thereby understood not only as a writer but also as a thinker - one whose seriousness of purpose and clarity of design compares with that of other early expositors of Kant's thought such as Reinhold and Fichte. Through the locutions and idioms of fiction and the essay, Kleist becomes visible for the first time as an original contributor to the tradition of post-Kantian ideas. Tim Mehigan is Professorial Chair of German in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Honorary Professor in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Book Synopsis Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist by : Heinrich von Kleist
Download or read book Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist written by Heinrich von Kleist and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the divine. From the "The Earthquake in Chile," his damning invective against moral tyranny; to "Michael Kohlhaas," an exploration of the extreme price of justice; to "The Marquise of O . . . ," his twist on the mythic triumph of love story; to his essay "On the Gradual Formulation of Thoughts While Speaking," which tracks the movements of the unconscious decades before Freud; Kleist unrelentingly confronts the dangers of self-deception and the ultimate impossibility of existence ina world of absolutes. Wortsman’s illuminating afterword demystifies Kleist’s vexed history, explaining how the century after his death saw Kleist’s legacy transformed from that of a largely derided playwright into a literary giant who would inspire Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. The concerns of Heinrich von Kleist are timeless. The mysteries in his fiction and visionary essays still breathe.
Book Synopsis The Prince of Homburg by : Dennis Kelly
Download or read book The Prince of Homburg written by Dennis Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic commander of the Prussian cavalry, the Prince of Homburg dreams of victory, glory and fame. But reckless disobedience during a crucial military operation leads the Prince into his greatest battle yet. The creative team behind the Donmar's critically acclaimed production of Life Is A Dream present Von Kleist's poetic masterpiece, which is considered to be one of the most haunting and beautiful plays of the nineteenth century, exploring honour, courage, ambition and love. Adapted for stage by acclaimed British writer Dennis Kelly, this is an exciting new adaptation of a classic of European literature.
Download or read book The Duel written by Heinrich von Kleist and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About This Book "No amount of wisdom could possibly make sense of the mysterious verdict which God intended through this duel." A new translation of a key work by one of European literature’s most important early writers. One of the few novellas written by the master German playwright, The Duel was considered by Thomas Mann and others to be one of the great works of German literature. The story of a virtuous woman slandered by a nobleman, it is a precise study of a subject that fascinated von Kleist: That people are sometimes seemingly punished for their very innocence. This Is An Enhanced eBook This eBook contains Illuminations—additional curated material that expand the world of Kleist’s novella through text and illustrations—at no additional charge. "Illuminations" contains writings by Paul the Deacon - J.G. Millingen - Sir Walter Scott - Johann Ludwig Uhland - Miguel de Cervantes - Andrew Lang - John Carl Blankenagel - Louis and Regis Senac - Alfred Hutton - Fiore de Liberi and a collection of the twelve laws of chivalry. Illustrations include: Gerhard von Kugelgen - Johannes Gehrts - Jörg Breu Jüngere and Pauls Hector Mair - Achilles Emperaire - George Muhlberg and others. Also included is The Duelist’s Supplement – “The Art of Dueling: How To Shoot and Slash Your Way To Satisfaction” which includes an entire facsimile scan of Fior de Liberi's Flower of Battle.
Book Synopsis The Plays of Heinrich Von Kleist by : Seán Allan
Download or read book The Plays of Heinrich Von Kleist written by Seán Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible 1996 study of the plays of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), whose work has been highly influential in contemporary German writing.
