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Literary conclusions : the poetics of ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist
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"Analyzing works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, Oliver Simons shows how the emergence of new kinds of literary endings around 1800 is inextricably...
"Analyzing works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, Oliver Simons shows how the emergence of new kinds of literary endings around 1800 is inextricably linked to the history of philosophical and scientific concepts"--
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- Oliver Simons
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- English
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- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2022
- ©2022
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- vii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810144798, 9780810144811, 0810144808, 0810144816, 0810144794, 9780810144804
- OCLC
- on1299298774, on1268983733
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. Thinking through Conclusions -- Lessing's Form of Reason -- Goethe and the Powers of Conclusion -- Kleist's Genres -- Conclusion. From Urteilskraft to Schlusskraft
Subjects
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Closure (Rhetoric)