Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Violence, Identity, Nation

Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Violence, Identity, Nation

[...]Howe situates Kleist's engagement with Rousseau through the "twin themes of violence and identity" as they play out in the context of the Revolution and its consequences (35). [...]Howe's approach is itself somewhat paradoxical: his traditional, intertextual close readings a...

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Veröffentlicht in:The German quarterly 2014, Vol.87 (1), p.110-112
1. Verfasser: Emm, Amy
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Ideology
Intertextuality
Kleist, Heinrich von (1777-1811)
Linguistic Theory
Morality
Reading
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Self Control
Skepticism
Social Action
Violence
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Zusammenfassung:[...]Howe situates Kleist's engagement with Rousseau through the "twin themes of violence and identity" as they play out in the context of the Revolution and its consequences (35). [...]Howe's approach is itself somewhat paradoxical: his traditional, intertextual close readings are based on a conservative notion of historical context and identity that largely ignores questions of desire, gender and race.
ISSN:0016-8831
1756-1183