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Heinrich von Kleist: Literary and Philosophical Paradigms

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WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award 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. Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe calls inspirational foils. It was precisely a keen awareness of literary and philosophical traditions that allowed Kleist to shatter prevailing paradigms. Though little is known about what specifically Kleist read, the frequent allusions in his enduringly modern oeuvre indicate fruitful dialogues with both canonical and marginal works of European literature, spanning antiquity (The Old Testament, Sophocles), the Early Modern Period (Shakespeare, De Zayas), the late Enlightenment (Wieland, Goethe, Schiller), and the first eleven years of the nineteenth century (Mereau, Brentano, Collin). Kleist's works also evidence encounters with his philosophical precursors and contemporaries, including the ancient Greeks (Aristotle) and representatives of all phases of Enlightenment thought (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Ferguson, Spalding, Fichte, Kant, Hegel), economic theories (Smith, Kraus), and developments in anthropology, sociology, and law. This volume of new essays sheds light on Kleist's relationship to his literary and philosophical influences and on their function as paradigms to which his writings respond. See more
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  • Weight: 1g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Apr 2022
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781640140967

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JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor of German Studies at California State University Long Beach 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. 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. 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. 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 Literature GAIL K. HART is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California Irvine. 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. LISA BEESLEY is a Lecturer of German at California State Polytechnic University Pomona JOHN A. MCCARTHY is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. JOHN T. HAMILTON is the William R. Kenan Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University. LAURA ANNA MACOR is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Verona. CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn. JOHANNES ENDRES is Professor of Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of California Riverside. BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University. 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.

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