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The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist - Fictions of Security (Hardcover)
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The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist - Fictions of Security (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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New and insightful interpretations of the controversial stories of
Heinrich von Kleist. The fascinating and controversial German
writer of dramas and novellas Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is
one of the most interesting objects of analysis for scholars of
German literature even today, nearly two centuries after hisdeath
by suicide. In recent years, disagreements among Kleist scholars
have been so extreme that some have suggested that his work
subverts the very process of interpretation. Sean Allan challenges
this view and the related one of Kleist as a profound pessimist. He
argues that the focus on Kleist's uninterpretability has obscured
important elements of social criticism present in his 'moral
stories.' To correct the widely-held view of Kleist as a 'poet
without a society,' Allan approaches the stories via investigation
of four thematic clusters: justice and revenge; revolution and
social change; education and the nature of evil; and art and
religion. Allan holds that the perspectiveendorsed by the Kleistian
narrator is designed to reflect the assumptions and prejudices of
the members of the dominant class of Kleist's time (authoritarian
and male-dominated as it was), and finds that by the end of the
storiesit is precisely this perspective that has been profoundly
called into question. Sean Allan is lecturer in German at the
University of Warwick, UK.
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