Kleist’s Female Leading Characters and the Subversion of Idealist Discourse (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Band 75) - Hardcover

McAllister Jr., Grant Profant

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082047486X ISBN 13: 9780820474861

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 2005

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Heinrich von Kleist’s problematic relationship with the philosophy and the aesthetics of idealism informs his parodic, rebellious, and destructive œuvre. This book focuses on this relationship and examines Kleist’s female leading characters and their role as amorphous ciphers for his own subversive aesthetic theory. Through parody these characters call into question idealist philosophy regarding truth, knowledge, and gender, and offer a theory of aesthetic representation that replaces traditional binary oppositions with pluralities and nonclosure. Nietzsche may have opened the door to postmodernism; however, Kleist unlocked it with four cunning female voices. This is the first book in Kleist scholarship to focus solely on Kleist’s female leading figures and their symbolic role as both character and literary theory – a theory anticipating Derridean deconstruction.

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The Author: Grant Profant McAllister, Jr. is Assistant Professor of German at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He holds a doctorate in German literature from the University of Utah. His research interests are eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German literature, literary theory, and questions of subjectivity and gender.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 082047486X
• ISBN 13: 9780820474861
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212
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