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Book SynopsisThe works and biography of Heinrich von Kleist have fascinated authors, artists, and philosophers for centuries, and his enduring relevance is evident in the emblematic role he has played for generations. Kleist’s prose works remain “utterly unique” seventy years after Thomas Mann described their singular appeal, his dramas remain “disturbingly current” four decades after E.L. Doctorow characterized their modernity, and twenty-first century readers need not read far before finding the unresolved questions of the current century in Kleist. Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies explores examples of Kleist’s impact on artistic creations and aesthetic theory spanning over two centuries of seismic metaphysical crises and nightmare scenarios from Europe to Mexico to Japan to manifestations of the American Dream.
Table of ContentsForeword: Interrogating Kleist? Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies of Heinrich von Kleist Jeffrey L. High and Carrie Collenberg-González Kleist and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit Valerio Rocco Lozano Operatic Reception of Kleist’s Das Käthchen von Heilbronn: From Holbein’s Stage Adaptation to the Operas of Hoven, Lux, and Reinthaler Glen Gray Stranger than Fiction: Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig on Goethe, Kleist, and the Struggle with the Daemon Elaine Chen Brecht, Kleist, and the Early GDR: The Berliner Ensemble’s Playbill for Der zerbrochne Krug (1952) and Its Renegotiation of Formalism, Realism, and Cultural Heritage Markus Wessendorf Penthesilea and Her Sisters: Visualizing the Feminine in the German Cultural Imagination of the 1970s and 1980s Seán Allan Victories of Insurrection: Heinrich von Kleist, Aleksandr Bek, and Heiner Müller Wolf Kittler Coetzee and Kafka with Kleist (and Job): Debating the ‘Kohlhaasian Solution’ Tim Mehigan Film Adaptations of Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas: On Triage, Recasting, and Restructuring Sophia Clark and Jeffrey L. High An Earthquake in Chile in Mexico: Juan Villoro on Kleist Craig Epplin The Vanishing Point: Heinrich von Kleist, Frank Stella, and the American Dream Carrie Collenberg-González Righteous Rebels: Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan Cassio de Oliveira Kleist in Yoko Tawada’s Works Susan C. Anderson Index of Names Index of Kleist’s Works
