Passions of the sign [electronic resource] : revolution and language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist / Andreas Gailus.
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TextSeries: Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)Publication details: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.Description: xvi, 222 pSubject(s): - Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811. Michael Kohlhaas
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
- Semiotics -- Germany -- History
- German language -- Rhetoric -- History
- Subjectivity -- History -- 19th century
- Subjectivity in literature
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution
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- P99.37.G3 G35 2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.
Energetic signs: autonomy and novelty in the age of revolution -- Revealing freedom: crisis and enthusiasm in Kant's philosophy of history -- Poetics of containment: Goethe's Conversations of German refugees and the crisis of communication -- Border narratives: Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas -- Conclusion: The big either.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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