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Author Gailus, Andreas.

Title Passions of the sign : revolution and language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist / Andreas Gailus
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages)
Series Parallax : re-visions of culture and society
Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index
Notes English
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Subject Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811. Michael Kohlhaas.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten.
SUBJECT Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Criticism and interpretation
Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811. Michael Kohlhaas
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 fast
Michael Kohlhaas (Kleist, Heinrich von) fast
Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von) fast
Subject Semiotics -- Germany -- History
German language -- Rhetoric -- History
Subjectivity -- History -- 19th century
Subjectivity in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
German language -- Rhetoric
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Semiotics
Subjectivity
Subjectivity in literature
SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051332
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution
Subject France
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005014176
ISBN 9780801889042
0801889049
9780801882777
080188277X