LEADER 03273nam 22005292 450 001 9911008479203321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-282-79565-1 010 $a9786612795657 010 $a1-57113-742-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571137425 035 $a(CKB)2670000000047042 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000419483 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11286313 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000419483 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10383257 035 $a(PQKB)10134519 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571137425 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003708 035 $a(DE-B1597)674492 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571137425 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000047042 100 $a20120822d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHeinrich von Kleist's poetics of passivity /$fSteven R. Huff 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (227 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-57113-422-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aControversial during his lifetime as well as among today's scholars and critics, the German dramatist and writer of novellas Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) remains an enigma. Was he a Romantic or a Classic? A conservative or a liberal? What is his status in the literary canon? Because of their enigmatic qualities, Kleist's writings have attracted the attention of critics and theorists from well beyond the narrow confines of German literary studies: comparatists, historians, philosophers, legal scholars, and even musicologists and dance historians. And outside academia his writings are as popular as ever. This book scrutinizes for the first time a key element in Kleist's thought and poetic process: his obsession with the problem of passivity. Scholars have long been attracted to the dynamic, larger-than-life characters in Kleist's fiction and drama, overlooking the fact that Kleist's works often turn on moments of stasis, as these same protagonists are suddenly and sometimes brutally rendered passive. Through a careful, historically grounded, and original investigation incorporating extensive primary research in late-Enlightenment natural philosophy and eighteenth-century medical practices, the study sheds light on these nodal points in Kleist's work, contending that these structures of passivity are so pervasive and so systematic in his work that they can justifiably and profitably be viewed as constituting a kind of poetics. Steven R. Huff is associate professor in the Department of German at Oberlin College. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) 606 $aPassivity (Psychology) in literature 615 0$aPassivity (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a838/.609 700 $aHuff$b Steven R.$01825911 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008479203321 996 $aHeinrich von Kleist's poetics of passivity$94393840 997 $aUNINA