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Title: THE PLAYS OF HEINRICH VON KLEIST
IDEALS AND ILLUSIONS
By: Sean Allan, H. B. Nisbet, Martin Swales
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521025044
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 11 February, 2006
Series: Cambridge Studies in German
Pages: 336
Description: An accessible 1996 study of the plays of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), whose work has been highly influential in contemporary German writing.
Synopsis: This is an accessible 1996 study of the plays of Kleist (1777-1811), who ranks with Goethe and Schiller amongst nineteenth-century authors and who has been a major influence on contemporary German writers. Sean Allan examines Kleist's critique of the aspirations of both Enlightenment and Romantic metaphysics, notably his suggestion that the pursuit of 'transcendent' ideals of perfection constitutes a formidable obstacle to genuine progress in human affairs. In so doing, he offers resolutions of a number of long-running controversies in Kleist criticism, as well as summarizing the state of research on all the plays. The book includes discussion of two plays usually neglected by scholars - Das Kathchen von Heilbronn and Die Hermannsschlacht. All quotations are given in both German and English and full references are given to published English translations of Kleist's works as well as to the German originals.
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Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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