Passions of the sign revolution and language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist / [electronic resource] :
Andreas Gailus.
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
- xvi, 222 p.
- Parallax : re-visions of culture and society .
- Parallax (Baltimore, Md.) .
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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
080188277X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 --Criticism and interpretation. Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811. Michael Kohlhaas.
German language--Rhetoric--History. Semiotics--History.--Germany Subjectivity in literature. Subjectivity--History--19th century.
France--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1789-1799 France--History--Literature and the revolution.--Revolution, 1789-1799