Thomas Wichmann zieht ein Resümee der bisherigen Kleistforschung und gibt eine neue Lesart von Kleists Leben und seinem schmalen, aber exemplarischen Werk.
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 ...
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 ...
Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most ambitious of its kind.
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...
Kleist, Heinrich von, works by—(cont'd) 201–5, 208, 209; Penthesilea, 28, 32, 52, 57–64,135,178,179;Phö- bus, 145, ... 16, 29 Müller-Seidel, Walter, 11, 50, 58, 64, 66,136, 147, 164 Musil, Robert, vii, 63, 67 Muth, Ludwig, vii, x Nagel, ...
Welche Funktion hat das Gespenst in der Erzählung? Es ist argumentiert worden, dass das Gespenst in der Erzählung eine moralische oder sogar eine politische Funktion habe. Ist das Gespenst also wie Hamlets Vater als Geist: “Doomed for a ...
This study offers a powerful new perspective on Kleist, emphasizing the visual and theatrical features of Kleist's work, alongside his familiar and all-pervasive irony and paradox. His complex dramas and...
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.
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 ...