Heinrich von Kleist : : artistic and political legacies / / edited by Jeffrey L. High and Sophia Clark ; cover concept designed by Joseph C. High ; cover image created by Aldo Gonzalez.

• TeilnehmendeR: High, Jeffrey L.; Clark, Sophia.; High, Joseph C.; González, Aldo.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2013.; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 170; Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 170.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

In an authorial class with dramatists and authors of literary prose such as Goethe, Schiller, Thomas Mann, Brecht, and Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) remains prominent in international evaluations of artistic genius when measured by enduring popular and artistic reception; legal, philosophical, and scientific criticism; and resonance of political rage. Scholars have long been fascinated by Kleist’s biography and works, in no small part due to his influence on authors, philosophers, political thinkers, and filmmakers, who regard Kleist as among the most accessible of “classic” artists — one whose relevance requires neither theoretical introduction nor literary-historical justification. The present volume addresses two centuries of engagement with Kleist and his works from an angle that has proven most important to their popular canonical status — his artistic and political legacies. What mattered to Kleist has mattered to centuries of readers, and thus all the more to artists and thinkers with similarly urgent messages to convey.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgments -- Heinrich von Kleist and His Legacy / Seán Allan -- Heinrich von Kleist’s Legacies / Jeffrey L. High -- Kleist’s Justice beyond Tears: Kohlhaasian Manifestos after Kleist / Karl J. Fink -- Reader Beware: Wild Right in Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas and Eichendorff’s Das Schloß Dürande / Jeffrey Champlin -- The Legacy of Kleist’s Language in Music: Schoeck, Wolf, Bachmann, and Henze / Amy Emm -- The Process of Inferential Contexts: Franz Kafka Reading Heinrich von Kleist / Tim Mehigan -- Like No Other? Thomas Mann and Kleist’s Novellas / Curtis Maughan and Jeffrey L. High -- A Michael Kohlhaas for the Post-Holocaust Era: Nelly Sachs’ Eli. Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels / Jennifer M. Hoyer -- The Puppet Inside: Reading Stuffing in Heiner Müller’s Kleist / Markus Wilczek -- Kleist in the Reception of the Red Army Faction / Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez -- Robert Walser, Christa Wolf, and Kleist on the Move: Portraits of the Writer on his Way to Writing / Daniel Cuonz -- What Moves Kohlhaas? Terror in Heinrich von Kleist, E. L. Doctorow, and Christoph Hein / Bernd Fischer -- Causality and Contingency in Kleist’s “Das Bettelweib von Locarno” and Judith Hermann’s “Sommerhaus, später” / Friederike von Schwerin-High -- “The Glazed Surface of Conviction”: The Motif of the Broken Jug in Kleist’s Der zerbrochne Krug and Ian McEwan’s Atonement / Mary Helen Dupree -- Artistic Reincarnations of the Author and his Texts: Adaptations of Kleist and Henriette Vogel’s Double Suicide / Marie Isabel Schlinzig -- No Home on Earth: Suicide in the Narratives of Kleist and David Foster Wallace / Hans Wedler -- Index of Names.