Figures of Simplicity
Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2012
171 pages
978-1-4384-3231-1 (ISBN)
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A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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Reflowable
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978-1-4384-3231-1 (9781438432311)
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Birgit Mara Kaiser is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Content
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: On Subterranean Connections
1. Aesthetics: Sensation and Thinking Reconsidered
The Copernican Turn
The Folds of Small Perceptions
Sensate Thinking
Figures of Simplicity
2. Sentimentalities
Befuddling the Senses (The Betrothal in St. Domingo)
Spectacularly Simple: Well-Willingly Seeing Nothing (Benito Cereno)
Sentimentalizing Resentment
3. Affectivity
Resolute Simplicity (Billy Budd, Sailor. An inside narrative)
Calculating Mindlessness (Michael Kohlhaas)
Baroque Heroes
4. Insistence
On Passive Resistance (Bartleby, the Scrivener. A story of Wall-Street)
Figures of Simplicity
Lingering before Consciousness (Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe)
Supersensible Figures of the Fold
5. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction: On Subterranean Connections
1. Aesthetics: Sensation and Thinking Reconsidered
The Copernican Turn
The Folds of Small Perceptions
Sensate Thinking
Figures of Simplicity
2. Sentimentalities
Befuddling the Senses (The Betrothal in St. Domingo)
Spectacularly Simple: Well-Willingly Seeing Nothing (Benito Cereno)
Sentimentalizing Resentment
3. Affectivity
Resolute Simplicity (Billy Budd, Sailor. An inside narrative)
Calculating Mindlessness (Michael Kohlhaas)
Baroque Heroes
4. Insistence
On Passive Resistance (Bartleby, the Scrivener. A story of Wall-Street)
Figures of Simplicity
Lingering before Consciousness (Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe)
Supersensible Figures of the Fold
5. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
