Figures of simplicity
Subtitle: sensation and thinking in Kleist and Melville
By: Birgit Mara Kaiser.
Series: Suny series, intersections: philosophy and critical theory
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438432298
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation; Kleist, Heinrich von, -- 1777-1811 -- Criticism and interpretation; Thought and thinking in literature; Senses and sensation in literature; Literature, Comparative -- American and German; Literature, Comparative -- German and American
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: on subterranean connections; title: Aesthetics: sensation and thinking reconsidered; title: Sentimentalities; title: Affectivity; title: Insistence.