Heinrich von Kleist (EPUB) von Jeffrey L. High

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.

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'sDie Herrmannsschlacht and Shakespeare'sHenry 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 onParteigeist - 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'sMichael Kohlhaas - John T. Hamilton

Kleist, Johann Joachim Spalding and theBestimmung 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'sFoundations of Natural Right and Kleist's Amphitryon - Bernd Fischer

Kleist and Haiti - With and Beyond Hegel - Katrin Pahl

Notes on the Contributors

Index