'...written by an author whose competence and sovereignty in dealing with Kleist's text is apparent in each line.'AUMLA'Anthony Stephen's monograph is the first comprehensive study of the plays and stories to have appeared in English for some time. [...[ he offers several genuinely novel and challenging perspectives on Kleists's work. [...][...]Anthony Stephens has produced an intriguing and highly accessible study'.MLR'enters into an informative dialogue with the wealth of previous criticism, but S's own insights and theories are original and well-argued. [...] This work is a standard for Kleist research and invaluable as a student handbook.'Modern Humanities Research Association

Heinrich von Kleist has emerged as one of the great literary figures of his era, yet surprisingly few critical studies of his works exist in English. This book by a distinguished authority on Kleist attempts to fill the gap by offering an up to date and challenging reading of his dramas and stories in the light of recent scholarship in German and other languages.
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A reading of Kleist's dramas and stories, exploring such themes as the problematical nature of family relationships, the failure of communication across a wide scale of social situations, and the theory of metaphor deduced from Kleist's practice as a writer.
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Die Familie Schroffenstein; Robert Guiskard; Der zerbrochne Krug; Amphitryon; Penthesilea; Das Kaethchen von Heilbronn; Die Hermannsschlacht; Prinz Friedrich von Homburg; Das Erdbeben in Chili / Die Verlobung in St Domingo; Die Marquise von O... / Der Findling; Der Zweikampf / Michael Kohlhass; Die Heilige Caecilie / Das Bettelweib von Locarno; Ueber das Marionettentheater.
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Product details

ISBN
9780854967087
Published
1994-09-15
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Berg Publishers
Height
218 mm
Width
138 mm
Thickness
21 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
288

Biographical note

Anthony Stephens is Head of the School of Languages and Professor of German, University of Melbourne.