Rhiel, Mary
Re-Viewing Kleist

The Discursive Construction of Authorial Subjectivity in West German Kleist Films.

This study examines through textual and contextual analysis how the texts and the biography of Heinrich von Kleist have been appropriated in three West German films from 1975 to the end of 1980ies. The author brings to bear at least three areas of expertise - Kleist studies, film semiotics, feminist theory - in a work that closely analyzes Eric Rohmer's Die Marquise von O..., Helma Sanders-Brahms' Heinrich, and Hans Neuenfels' Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist. Rather than discussing the loyalty of a particular film to the original texts of Kleist, Rhiel looks at each film's discursive construction of authorship and analyzes its participation in the formation of the film's textual and narrative strategies. 155 Seiten, gebunden (Studies in Modern German Literature; Vol. 44/Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar/near mint