...Benjamin Lewis Robinson Abstract J. M. Coetzee conceived of Life & Times of Michael K (1983) as an “interpretive translation” of Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas (1808/10). Drawing on Coetzee’s notes and drafts, this essay explores his attempt to generate the literary and political...

...Jan Mieszkowski Abstract This essay seeks to answer a deceptively simple question: what takes place when someone claims to be remarking on something “in passing”? The first part focuses on Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas , where the politico-economic order is shaken by challenges...

.... This promise transforms impasse into enactment, impossibility into actuality. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 Maurice Blanchot community Heinrich von Kleist insurrection sovereignty The notion of political “impasse” has been thrown around more and more these days in the wake...

... . Shields Mary E. “Concubine.” The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible . Nashville : Abingdon , 2006–2009 . Vol 1 . 713 – 14 . Print . Streller Siegfried . “Heinrich von Kleist und Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” Weimarer Beiträge 8 ( 1962 ): 541 – 66 . Print . Süselbeck...

... chapters that follow are therefore devoted to two writers, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Hölderlin, who provide different candidates for such a revolutionary language. Kleist’s Prince Friedrich of Homburg  dramatizes a failure to estab- lish a reliable...

... chapters that follow are therefore devoted to two writers, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Hölderlin, who provide different candidates for such a revolutionary language. Kleist’s Prince Friedrich of Homburg  dramatizes a failure to estab- lish a reliable...

.... FAUST’S SPECULATIVE MOMENT/285 Heinrich von Kleist is of special importance in registering this modern con- sciousness of the unknowable and unpredictable. Bohrer discusses at length the essay “Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden” (“On the Gradual Development of One’s...

... for the organization of affective experience, and a container in which modern selfhood has come to be formulated” (15). While in Germany he becomes obsessed by the work of Romanticist Heinrich von Kleist, famed for his murder-suicide pact with a female companion that was carried out on the shores of the same lake...

...; Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, Miss Sara Sampson, and Minna von Barnhelm; Goethe’s essay on German architecture and Schiller’s elegy The Walk; Kleist’s play The Broken Jug; Holbein’s portrait of The Ambassadors and Guardi’s and Bellotto’s Venice and Dresden views; Mozart’s operas; Meissen porcelains...

..., for example, the passport complications that trigger the protagonist’s rampage in Heinrich von Kleist’s novella Michael Kohlhaas (1810), Jean Valjean’s stigmatizing yellow passport in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (1862), or the role played by French revolutionary movement control in Charles Dickens’s...

... von Stolberg (Ilias, 1778) and the Klopstock disciple and Stolberg friend Johann Heinrich Voß (Odyssee, 1781; Ilias and revised Odyssee, 1793), for well over a cen- COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/132 tury thereafter the ranking German Homer translator: these, too, were in hex- ameter, as were Voß’s...

... publishing house such as Aufbau Verlag, Segh- 8 Seghers makes the connection between her Caribbean stories and the German Romantic tradi- tion explicit by naming the first story in the collection “Die Hochzeit auf Haiti” (“Wedding in Haiti The title clearly alludes to Heinrich Kleist’s 1811 novella...

.... “The ‘Sixth Emigrant’: Traveling Places in the Works of W. G. Sebald.” Contemporary Literature 46 . 3 ( 2005 ): 422 – 49 . Print . Heine Heinrich . “Florentine Nights.” Scintillations from the Prose Work of Heinrich Heine . Trans. Stern Simon Adler . New York : Henry Holt , 1873...

... Wolf’s and Galanaki’s approach toward romanticism. In No Place on Earth (1979), Wolf returned to the early German Romantic movement, specifically to the figures of Kleist and the mostly forgotten Karoline von Günderrode, staging an encoun- ter that never happened historically. Similarly, Galanaki re...

... Wolf’s and Galanaki’s approach toward romanticism. In No Place on Earth (1979), Wolf returned to the early German Romantic movement, specifically to the figures of Kleist and the mostly forgotten Karoline von Günderrode, staging an encoun- ter that never happened historically. Similarly, Galanaki re...

... Wolf’s and Galanaki’s approach toward romanticism. In No Place on Earth (1979), Wolf returned to the early German Romantic movement, specifically to the figures of Kleist and the mostly forgotten Karoline von Günderrode, staging an encoun- ter that never happened historically. Similarly, Galanaki re...

... Wolf’s and Galanaki’s approach toward romanticism. In No Place on Earth (1979), Wolf returned to the early German Romantic movement, specifically to the figures of Kleist and the mostly forgotten Karoline von Günderrode, staging an encoun- ter that never happened historically. Similarly, Galanaki re...

... Wolf’s and Galanaki’s approach toward romanticism. In No Place on Earth (1979), Wolf returned to the early German Romantic movement, specifically to the figures of Kleist and the mostly forgotten Karoline von Günderrode, staging an encoun- ter that never happened historically. Similarly, Galanaki re...

... Wolf’s and Galanaki’s approach toward romanticism. In No Place on Earth (1979), Wolf returned to the early German Romantic movement, specifically to the figures of Kleist and the mostly forgotten Karoline von Günderrode, staging an encoun- ter that never happened historically. Similarly, Galanaki re...

... Wolf’s and Galanaki’s approach toward romanticism. In No Place on Earth (1979), Wolf returned to the early German Romantic movement, specifically to the figures of Kleist and the mostly forgotten Karoline von Günderrode, staging an encoun- ter that never happened historically. Similarly, Galanaki re...