Heinrich von Kleist: The Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form [Hardcover]

Hilda Meldrum Brown (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198158955 | ISBN-13: 978-0198158950 | Publication Date: August 27, 1998 | Edition: 1st Ed. (U.K.)

This study offers a powerful new perspective on Kleist, emphasizing the visual and theatrical features of Kleist's work, alongside his 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`Unusual and stimulating ... This is a well-written, thorough and penetrating study which, alongside the fine translations of the literary works that have been appearing in recent years, should ensure that Kleist can at last be properly appreciated in the Anglo-Saxon world two centuries after his brief and turbulent career. Strongly recommended.' Forum for Modern Language Studies 35:4 1999

`An integrated approach to the works of a major and notoriously difficult author. The detailed discussion of the letters... and the careful positioning of them within historical and cultural contexts will likely be of most interest to Kleist scholars and most provocative of new ideas. THe book will appeal to those interested in a general survey of Kleist's works.' Nancy Nobile, Michigan Germanic Studies Vol.XXIV, No.1.

This is a book not to be missed

About the Author

Hilda Brown is at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 424 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1st Ed. (U.K.) edition (August 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198158955
• ISBN-13: 978-0198158950
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,197,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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