Middling Romanticism

Zachary Sng, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University, is the author of The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist (Stanford University Press, 2010). His areas of research include German and British aesthetics, the history of rhetoric, literary theory, and European romanticism.

• Introduction 11. Parenthyrsos: On the Medium of the Sublime 172. The Medium Eats the Message: Mediatizationand Force in Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" 383. Radically Neutral: Hegel, Haiti, Kleist 714. Love Language: Plato, Shelley, Schlegel 1045. This Is (Not) a Joint: Two Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin 1276. Lyric Meditude: On Hölderlin and Ashbery 154After Words 173Acknowledgments 187Notes 189Works Cited 217Index 233