Heinrich Von Kleist The Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form |
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| Author:
| Brown, Hilda Meldrum |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-815895-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1998 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $76.00 |
Book Description:
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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,...
More DescriptionThe 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.