THE DRAMA

ISBN: 9781940813509 Géneros: Sinópsis: This treatise offers a novel and comprehensive approach to rereading Heinrich von Kleist’s works with an indepth focus on the eight dramas It unravels his texts’ overt textual fabric and isolates and decodifies the covert thematic strands of which they are shown to be systematically composed It demonstrates that these individual textual strands express and embody their author’s main political and personal life pursuits and that his works function as his vehicles and mechanisms for the active pursuit of his agendas thereby establishing them as being not only autobiographical but indeed eminently auto as well as hetero poIetical This treatise demonstrates that it is always possible in principle and usually in practice to eliminate those ambivalences dissonances and incommensurabilities that apparently mar Kleist’s texts and that have long preoccupied and puzzled the KleistForschung showing them to comprise mere textual surface phenomena brought about by his intricate interweaving within a single textual fabric of multiple heterogenous thematic threads In rigorously unravelling these threads and thus decrypting the texts this book demystifies Kleist and confirms him to have been among that exceedingly rare breed of writers of whom he himself once wrote that they master both metaphor and formula in equal measure