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Kleist's Female Leading Characters and the Subversion of Idealist Discourse
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Kleist's Female Leading Characters and the Subversion of Idealist Discourse Hardcover - 2005

by Horst Daemmrich (Editor); Grant Profant McAllister Jr


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Heinrich von Kleist's problematic relationship with the philosophy and the aesthetics of idealism informs his parodic, rebellious, and destructive oeuvre. 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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  • Title Kleist's Female Leading Characters and the Subversion of Idealist Discourse
  • Author Horst Daemmrich (Editor); Grant Profant McAllister Jr
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 210
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date May 16, 2005
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780820474861 / 082047486X
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Women's Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in literature, Kleist, Heinrich von - Characters - Women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004018812
  • Dewey Decimal Code 838.609

About the author

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.
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