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Heinrich von Kleist: Style and Concept: Explorations of Literary Dissonance
Author(s): Dieter Sevin (Editor), Christoph Zeller
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: April 17, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 432 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110270471
- ISBN-13: 9783110270471
Book Description
The impact of Heinrich von Kleist unfolds between precise depictions and moral extremes. Crystallized in words, his characters appear as paradigms of human fallibility. Their passions and obsessions, their inadequacies and longings are captured in a writing style that reveals its influence even in novels and plays of the twentieth century. This volume takes the literary reception of Kleist as one of its focal points and, furthermore, considers the author’s oeuvre and his life on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death.
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The impact of Heinrich von Kleist unfolds between precise depictions and moral extremes. Crystallized in words, his characters appear as paradigms of human fallibility. Their passions and obsessions, their inadequacies and longings are captured in a writing style that reveals its influence even in novels and plays of the twentieth century. This volume takes the literary reception of Kleist as one of its focal points and, furthermore, considers the author’s oeuvre and his life on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death.
About the Author
Dieter Sevin and Christoph Zeller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
Dieter Sevin and Christoph Zeller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
