Dear Colleagues,
The July issue of German Life and Letters is now available. This is a
special number, 'Performance and Performativity in the Works of Heinrich
von Kleist', edited by Seán Allan and Elystan Griffiths. For the list of
contents please see below. For abstracts and further details visit the
following link, where you can also access a free sample issue of the
journal:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glal.2011.64.issue-3/issuetoc
John Sandford
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CONTENTS
Introduction. Heinrich von Kleist: Performance and Performativity (Seán
Allan and Elystan Griffiths)
I. Genre as Performance
Heinrich von Kleists vorgeführtes Erzählen (Bernd Fischer)
Gewaltinszenierungen. Formen des Spiels im Spiel in Kleists Dramen (Peter
Philipp Riedl)
II. Power and Performance
Performanz und Essentialismus von Geschlecht bei Kleist: Eine doppelte
Dialektik zwischen Subordination und Handlungsfähigkeit (Ricarda Schmidt)
'Des Vaterlandes grauses Sinnbild': Legitimacy, Performance and Terror in
Kleist's Die Herrmannsschlacht (Steven Howe)
Between Terror and Transcendence: A Reading of Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas
(Elisabeth Krimmer)
Religion, Power and the Instablity of Performance in Heinrich von Kleist's
Stories (Elystan Griffiths)
III. Kleist and Performance - Performing Kleist
Theaternot, Theaterkritik, Theatertraum: Heinrich von Kleist und das Theater
seiner Zeit (Alexander Weigel)
'Ihr habt verbreitet / Die Lehre der Klassiker': Bertolt Brecht und Heiner
Müller lesen Kleists Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (Michael Gratzke)
Revolutionary Aesthetics? Kleist, 1968, and the New German Cinema (Seán
Allan)
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