Heinrich von Kleist
The Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 25 June 1998
- ISBN 9780198158950
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages420 pages
- Size 224x144x30 mm
- Weight 726 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 black and white figures 0
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Short description:
The works of the major German author Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) have inspired many contradictory interpretations. This study offers a new perspective in which the visual and theatrical features are emphasized alongside Kleist's familiar and all-pervasive irony and paradox. His complex dramas and prose tales are here approached principally via literary - or pre-literary - features displayed in Kleist's early letters. The problem of artistic illusion, a main concern in the letters, can also be given due attention in discussions of the works, in many of which it is thematized.
MoreLong description:
This book presents an integrated approach to the literary and non-literary writings of the major German author, Heinrich von Kleist. Analysis of Kleist's early letters, in particular, illuminates the oblique and unique processes by which he became aware of his vocation; simultaneously offering new perspectives from which to approach the works themselves. The discipline of recording observations based on visits to art galleries and travels through landscapes and towns in Prussia, Saxony, and Franconia stimulated Kleist's imagination, providing sets and scenarios which brought him gradually to an awareness of his innate dramatic talents. On a more theoretical level, he was led to speculate about the problem of illusion in art at the same time as he was wrestling with the epistemological implications of Kantian philosophy. The negative aspects of illusion which he drew from the latter were complemented by a new-found confidence in his ability as an artist to impart to the 'fragility' of the human condition a degree of fixity through form and structure and the coherence and control associated with verbal devices such as paradox and irony. These principles are shown to operate to varying degrees in all Kleist's works, and to gain in subtlety and depth, nowhere more than in his final masterpiece, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg.
This is well argued; and time and time again, Brown's readings of individual texts are persuasive in their precision and good sense. She has a fine eye for the configuration and interplay of characters./ ... there is much to enjoy in Brown's monograph./ ... time and time again she has marvellous, and marvellously detailed, observations to make on the particularity of individual texts. Generations of Kleist readers will be in her debt./ Martin Swales, Professor of German, University College London, THES, 28/05/99.
Table of Contents:
Note on Translations and Abbreviations
Introduction
The Letters
The Occasional Writings
The Erzählungen
The Dramas
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
