Description: New essays employing a multitude of approaches to the works of Kleist, in the process shedding light on our present modernity.
Brief description: Tim Mehigan is professor of German and head of the Department of German and Russian at the University of Melbourne.
Review Quotes: This outstanding collection of essays . . . is an excellent indicator of the state of contemporary Kleist scholarship. Written by some of the foremost Kleist experts, the contributors display a wide methodological range . . . . [P]rovides readers novel insights into what constitutes Kleist's modernity and how his writings participate in modernity's emerging literary, philosophical, and scientific discourses. . . . No matter what methodological predisposition readers have, they will encounter fascinating new insights into the life and work of an author whose unique if enigmatic status is still growing two hundred years after his death.-- "MONATSHEFTE"