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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 ********** 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) ********** To receive German Life and Letters updates straight into your inbox, visit www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/gll and click on 'Get New Contents Alerts'. Please note, you must first register with Wiley Online Library to use this service.