Author: Burckhardt, Sigurd [1916 - 1966]
Title: The Drama of Language; Essays on Goethe and Kleist.
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, [1970]. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, viii,175 pp. Small stain to top page-edge.. Some rubbing. Good. In a rubbed & soiled dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Of Order, Abstraction, and Language; Language as Form in Goethe's "Prometheus" and "Pandora"; "The voice of truth and of humanity": Goethe's "Iphigenie"; The Consistency of Goethe's "Tasso"; "Die natürliche Tochter" : Goethe's "Iphigenie in Aulis"; "Egmont" and "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg": Expostulation and Reply; Heinrich von Kleist: The Poet as Prussian; Kleist's "Hermannsschlacht" : The Lock and the Key.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, German Literature, J.W. Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, , , , ,