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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hollender, Kurt

Titel

Literary Potions and Poisons: Schiller, Goethe, Kleist

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• “Literary Potions and Poisons: Schiller, Goethe, Kleist” examines the peripheral yet central literary potions and poisons in Kabale und Liebe, Faust. Eine Tragödie, and Die Herrmannsschlacht. The potions and poisons in these dramas are read as privileged tropes that thematize contemporary political and social currents and reflect poetologically on the texts. Closely considering the potions and poisons offers new readings that stand in conversation with and sometimes in opposition with some of the most renowned scholarly pronouncements on these prominent texts. A tropology of Pulver in Kabale und Liebe, the Zaubertrank and the metaphor of thirst in Goethe’s Faust. Eine Tragödie, and the mysterious Alraune in Kleist’s Die Herrmannsschlacht undergird the poets’ considerations and critiques of absolutism, bourgeois norms, the French Revolution, and the formation of nations as well as their reflections on genre, form, and rhetoric.