| The Manipulation of Reality in Works by Heinrich Von Kleist Contributor(s): Brown, Peter D. G. (Editor), Glenny, Robert E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820404713 ISBN-13: 9780820404714 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $62.51 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 838.609 |
| LCCN: 87003055 |
| Series: Studies in Modern German Literature, |
| Physical Information: 245 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Disguising and unveiling, only to disguise again, Heinrich von Kleist creates characters whose definition of self and of others depends on their own ability to generate, present, and regenerate convincing masks of personal and interpersonal realities. This study focuses on the network of private and public identities in Kleist's works, how those identities function on and between transformative levels of human interaction (role-playing, creative naming, word-dreams, and manipulative games of illusion and delusion), and how those identities in the imaginative consciousness fabricate new universes which become part of and, at the same time, are separated from the temporal and spatial norms we assign to external realities. |