Kleist viewed anew as a major contributor to the tradition of post-Kantian thought.
Nightmare--a politically explosive murder trial in the middle of the Vietnam War.
Knotty, darkly comical, magnificent in its weirdness, and one of the greatest and most influential tales in German literature, this short novel, first published in German in 1810, is now available in award-winning Michael Hofmann’s ...
In Desire's Sway, James M. McGlathery investigates the role of suppressed sexual desire in the works of the important German author Heinrich von Kleist. In contrast to the past hundred...
The present volume brings together the most important and innovative of these newer scholarly approaches: the essays include critically informed, up-to-date interpretations of Kleist's most-discussed stories and dramas.
In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
Writing under increasingly unfriendly social and political conditions, this is arguably Kleist at his funniest and most irreverent, not shying away from dirty jokes while nevertheless displaying the same knack for the stylish prose that ...
" For the first time, in this splendidly illustrated book, an English translation recreates the audaity, romance, and poetry of one of the strangest and most beautiful works of Western literature.
This collection of works from the last period of his life also includes 'The Earthquake in Chile,' 'Michael Kohlhaas,' 'The Beggarwoman of Locarno,' 'St. Cecilia or The Power of Music,' 'The Betrothal in Santo Domingo,' 'The Foundling,' and ...
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...
Neumann, Gerhard, 'E.T.A. Hoffmanns “Prinzessin Brambilla” als Entwurf einer Wissenspoetik: Wissenschaft – Theater – Literatur', in Romantische Wissenspoetik, ed. by Gabriele Brandstetter and Gerhard Neumann (Würzburg: Königshausen und ...