Heinrich von Kleist and Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fischer, Bernd; Mehigan, Tim

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571137821
• Artikelnr.: 63918414

Autorenporträt

Bernd Fischer, Tim Mehigan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Bernd Fischer and Tim Mehigan Zu Ende schreiben: Ultimative
Strategien im Schaffen Kleists - Bernhard Greiner "Sein Nahen ist ein Wehen
aus der Ferne": Ottokar's Leap in Die Familie Schroffenstein - Nancy Nobile
The Fragmented Picture and Kleist's Zerbrochner Krug - Dorothea von Muecke
"So glaubst du jetzt, daß ich dir Wahrheit gab?" Gender, Power and the
Performance of Justice in Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug - Sean Allan Recht
als Krieg: Moderne Staatlichkeit und die Aporienlegalistischer Herrschaft
bei Heinrich von Kleist - Christian Moser Representing the Nation in
Heinrich von Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg - David Pan
Herrschaftsgenealogie und Staatsgemeinschaft: Zu Kleists Dramaturgie der
Moderne im Prinzen von Homburg - Helmut J. Schneider Changing Perceptions
of Modernity in Nineteenth-CenturyGerman Theater from Goethe to Wagner,
with Reference to Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg - Hilda Brown
Weiblicher Sadismus, Wutwelt des Liebes-Urwalds, Geschlechtskampf,
absolutes Gefühl: Die Penthesilea-Rezeptionin der Moderne - Ricarda Schmidt
Prosodic and Dramatic Tension in the Blank-Verse Dramas of Heinrich von
Kleist - Dr. David Chisholm-Univ. of Arizona Crisis, Denial, and Outrage:
Kleist (Schiller, Kant) and the Path to the German Novella(s) of Modernity
- Jeffrey L. High Das Gespenst der Armut: "Das Bettelweib von Locarno" -
Zwischen traditioneller christlicher, kantisch aufgeklärter undmoderner
marxistischer Auffassung - Peter Horn The Problem of Knowledge and the
Discourse of the Hysteric: Exploring a Lacanian Interpretation of "Die
Marquise von O. . ." - Peter Barton Religion nach der Aufklärung: Die
heilige Cäcilie - Identität, Religion und Moderne - Anette Horn Breaking
Skulls: Kleist, Hegel, and the Force of Assertion - Andreas Gailus Kleist's
"Übermarionette" and Schrenck-Notzing's "Traumtänzerin": Nervous Mechanics
and Hypnotic Performance under Modernism - Jonathan Marshall Falling after
the Fall: The Analysis of the Infinite in Kleist's Marionette Theater -
Wolf Kittler Notes on the Contributors Index