KLEIST'S FEMALE LEADING CHARACTERS AND THE SUBVERSION OF IDEALIST DISCOURSE by Grant Profant McAllister ( 9780820474861 )

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KLEIST'S FEMALE LEADING CHARACTERS AND THE SUBVERSION OF IDEALIST DISCOURSE

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Grant Profant McAllister

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PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC

Pub. date:

1 May, 2005

Series:

Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature 75

Pages:

210

Synopsis:

Heinrich von Kleist's problematic relationship with the philosophy and the aesthetics of idealism informs his parodic, rebelious, 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 character call into question idealist philosophy regarding truth, knowledge, and gender, and offer a theory of aesthetic representartion 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 figuers and their symbolic role as both character and literary thepry--a theory anticipating Derridean deconstruction.

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