High / Stewart / Stewart-Gray Heinrich von Kleist

Literary and Philosophical Paradigms
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-340-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 226, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

High, Jeffrey L.

Stewart, Rebecca

Stewart-Gray, Rebecca

Chen, Elaine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lützeler, Paul Michael

Hart, Gail K.

Howe, Steven

Beesley, Lisa

McCarthy, John A.

Hamilton, John T.

Macor, Laura Anna

Moser, Christian

Endres, Johannes

Fischer, Bernd

Pahl, Katrin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

High Jeffrey L.:
JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor of German Studies at California State University, Long BeachStewart Rebecca:
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.Stewart-Gray Rebecca:
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.Chen Elaine:
ELAINE CHEN is a Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of Germanic Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and holds an M.A. in German Studies from California State University, Long Beach.Lützeler Paul Michael:
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 LiteratureHart Gail K.:
GAIL K. HART is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine.Howe Steven:
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.Beesley Lisa:
LISA BEESLEY is a Lecturer of German at California State Polytechnic University, PomonaMcCarthy John A.:
JOHN A. MCCARTHY is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.Hamilton John T.:
JOHN T. HAMILTON is the William R. Kenan Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University.Macor Laura Anna:
LAURA ANNA MACOR is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Verona.Moser Christian:
CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn.Endres Johannes:
JOHANNES ENDRES is Professor of Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of California, Riverside.Fischer Bernd:
BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University.Pahl Katrin:
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.