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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... writes , ' Action ... Suspense Immediacy Persuasion ... Conflict ... Revelation Climax ... Resolution . These are the qualities of theatre , of story - telling , and , coincidentally , of the law courts ' ( 214 ) . Besides ' directors ...
... writes , ' Action ... Suspense Immediacy Persuasion ... Conflict ... Revelation Climax ... Resolution . These are the qualities of theatre , of story - telling , and , coincidentally , of the law courts ' ( 214 ) . Besides ' directors ...
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... write trial dramas often have this same restoration as their goal : " Part of the reason a person writes is to try to see some design , to create order out of chaos , to try to understand things about myself as well as the world around ...
... write trial dramas often have this same restoration as their goal : " Part of the reason a person writes is to try to see some design , to create order out of chaos , to try to understand things about myself as well as the world around ...
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... writes , " The prime function of Kleist's structural innovations is to provide cues which alert the audience or reader to the presence of a creative disturbance of patterns that had grown all too familiar and predictable ' ( 2003 , 72 ) ...
... writes , " The prime function of Kleist's structural innovations is to provide cues which alert the audience or reader to the presence of a creative disturbance of patterns that had grown all too familiar and predictable ' ( 2003 , 72 ) ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Die Familie Schroffenstein | 25 |
Der zerbrochne Krug and Oedipus the King | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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