Trials and Tribunals in the Dramas of Heinrich Von KleistP. Lang, 2007 - 153 Seiten What makes the trial so appealing as dramatic form? Why do we watch? Is it simply the quest for truth and justice? Or is it much more than that? From the time of Sophocles, the court has fascinated audiences and dramatists alike. Kleist is no exception, as each of his dramas and many of his stories and anecdotes contain a trial of some sort from its most primitive form of hand-to-hand combat in the duel to more conventional legal proceedings in secular, military and ecclesiastical courts. At trial, we desire, whether consciously or unconsciously, to have our own system of beliefs and behaviours affirmed rather than to attempt to achieve justice: self interest prevails at the expense of truth and equity. The focus of this book is the tension between the restoration of dike, the balance of natural order, and the pursuit of truth and justice as impetus behind the trial. With recourse to the concept of legal instrumentalism, which underscores this preference for order over justice in both the law and literature, the author examines Kleist's dramas to determine the extent to which those individuals in positions of power are able to manipulate the proceedings, seeking not justice and truth, but rather the validation of their own particular version of order. The trial, a tool generally thought to be designed to discover truth and to mete out justice, is used instead, in the hands of the powerful, as an instrument of control and degradation. |
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... punishment and there are those who believe that an element of sadism lurks in us all . In Oedipus Rex , the word most often rendered as justice , dikê , can also be translated as the balance of natural order , a more neutral term than ...
... punishment and there are those who believe that an element of sadism lurks in us all . In Oedipus Rex , the word most often rendered as justice , dikê , can also be translated as the balance of natural order , a more neutral term than ...
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... punishment . Much too late , the chorus reiterates Jocasta's plea to remain in darkness . - Ultimately the truth is revealed and the light shines on the murky past : ' O god - / all come true , all burst to light ! / O light – now let ...
... punishment . Much too late , the chorus reiterates Jocasta's plea to remain in darkness . - Ultimately the truth is revealed and the light shines on the murky past : ' O god - / all come true , all burst to light ! / O light – now let ...
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... punished . Confident in Rome's superiority and , by associ- ation , in his own , Varus expects very little from the ... punishment which might be expected should one consider crossing those bounds . In this way , the trial functions as ...
... punished . Confident in Rome's superiority and , by associ- ation , in his own , Varus expects very little from the ... punishment which might be expected should one consider crossing those bounds . In this way , the trial functions as ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Die Familie Schroffenstein | 25 |
Der zerbrochne Krug and Oedipus the King | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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