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Kleist's Aristocratic Heritage and das Käthchen Von Heilbronn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991Copyright date: ©1991Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (200 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773563117
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kleist's Aristocratic Heritage and das Käthchen Von HeilbronnLOC classification:
  • PT2378.K3 R44 1991
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The True Princess -- 2 The False Princess -- 3 True or False? -- 4 The Truth Discovered -- 5 Character Consistency to the End -- 6 Names in Kathchen von Heilbronn -- 7 Love across the Class Barrier: Kathchen, Kabale und Liebe, and Agnes Bernauer -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: William Reeve provides a detailed textual analysis of Heinrich von Kleist's drama Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, demonstrating that Kleist drew its poetic images, themes, and general atmosphere from the Prussian aristocratic class into which he had been born. Reeve's comprehensive re-reading of Käthchen throws light on the enigmas and textual incongruities that have puzzled Kleist's commentators in the past.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The True Princess -- 2 The False Princess -- 3 True or False? -- 4 The Truth Discovered -- 5 Character Consistency to the End -- 6 Names in Kathchen von Heilbronn -- 7 Love across the Class Barrier: Kathchen, Kabale und Liebe, and Agnes Bernauer -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

William Reeve provides a detailed textual analysis of Heinrich von Kleist's drama Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, demonstrating that Kleist drew its poetic images, themes, and general atmosphere from the Prussian aristocratic class into which he had been born. Reeve's comprehensive re-reading of Käthchen throws light on the enigmas and textual incongruities that have puzzled Kleist's commentators in the past.

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