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\"Das<\/a><\/span>The “Disempowered” Subject: On the History and Function of Comedy in Heinrich von Kleist\u2019s Works<\/span>
\n1996, K\u00f6nigshausen & Neumann:\u00a0W\u00dcRZBURG
\n<\/span>Johannes Endres, author<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Kleist scholars tend to imagine the author as the paradigmatic exponent of a tragic mind. The shadows of his tragedies in life and literature seem too heavy and gloomy to leave room for comic tendencies. Although Kleist\u2019s two comedies have always been acknowledged as true highlights in the history of the genre, his comic “strategies” \u2013 as well as their precedents from Lessing to Freud \u2013 have mostly been ignored. However, with such strategies in mind, the author\u2019s situation appears as one in which the demands of an idealist worldview provoke a retreat to the limited and reduced formats of comedy. Kleist\u2019s massive \u203astruggle with Schiller\u2039 \u2013 his predominant role model and antipode \u2013 is here reexamined in the light of a general struggle to avoid tragic inevitabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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