Heinrich von Kleist

• AcknowledgmentsSeán Allan (University of Warwick): Foreword: Heinrich von Kleist and His LegacyJeffrey L. High (California State University, Long Beach): Introduction: Heinrich von Kleist’s LegaciesKarl J. Fink (St. Olaf College): Kleist’s Justice beyond Tears: Kohlhaasian Manifestos after KleistJeffrey Champlin (Bard College): Reader Beware: Wild Right in Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas and Eichendorff’s Das Schloß DürandeAmy Emm (The Citadel): The Legacy of Kleist’s Language in Music: Schoeck, Wolf, Bachmann, and HenzeTim Mehigan (University of Queensland): The Process of Inferential Contexts: Franz Kafka Reading Heinrich von KleistCurtis Maughan (Vanderbilt University) and Jeffrey L. High (California State University, Long Beach):Like No Other? Thomas Mann and Kleist’s NovellasJennifer M. Hoyer (University of Arkansas): A Michael Kohlhaas for the Post-Holocaust Era: Nelly Sachs’ Eli. Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden IsraelsMarkus Wilczek (Harvard University): The Puppet Inside:Reading Stuffing in Heiner Müller’s KleistCarrie Collenberg-Gonzalez (Longwood University): Kleist in the Reception of the Red Army FactionDaniel Cuonz (Universität St. Gallen): Robert Walser, Christa Wolf, and Kleist on the Move: Portraits of the Writer on his Way to WritingBernd Fischer (The Ohio State University): What Moves Kohlhaas? Terror in Heinrich von Kleist, E. L. Doctorow, and Christoph HeinFriederike von Schwerin-High (Pomona College): Causality and Contingency in Kleist’s “Das Bettelweib von Locarno” and Judith Hermann’s “Sommerhaus, später”Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown University): “The Glazed Surface of Conviction”: The Motif of the Broken Jug in Kleist’s Der zerbrochne Krug and Ian McEwan’s AtonementMarie Isabel Schlinzig (University of Oxford): Artistic Reincarnations of the Author and his Texts: Adaptations of Kleist and Henriette Vogel’s Double SuicideHans Wedler (Bürgerhospital Stuttgart): No Home on Earth: Suicide in the Narratives of Kleist and David Foster WallaceIndex

“[…] the contributions succeed in bringing a fresh outlook and opening a range of stimulating and distinctive perspectives. For this, the volume warrants recognition as a profitable contribution to Kleist scholarship and deserves a wide readership.” - Steven Howe, University of Lucerne, in: Modern Language Review 110.2 (2015), pp. 590-592