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• Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award 2023 (UK)

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Author:   Jeffrey L. High (Customer) ,  Professor Rebecca Stewart ,  Dr Rebecca Stewart-Gray ,  Elaine Chen
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9781640140967

ISBN 10:   1640140964
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   15 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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's Die Herrmannsschlacht and Shakespeare's Henry 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 on Parteigeist - 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's Michael Kohlhaas - John T. Hamilton Kleist, Johann Joachim Spalding and the Bestimmung 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's Foundations of Natural Right and Kleist's Amphitryon - Bernd Fischer Kleist and Haiti - With and Beyond Hegel - Katrin Pahl Notes on the Contributors Index"

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Surprising, original, and eminently readable, this is an outstanding addition to serious scholarship about an author whose work is increasingly significant for contemporary readers. Highly recommended. * CHOICE MAGAZINE *

Author Information

JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA. 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 PhD candidate in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, MA. 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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