William Quirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Quirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Quirk |
| SIGNATURE | QUIRK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Text as Daemonic Theater
Arguing against the idea of a “true, underlying story,” this article proposes using the concept of transformative poetics to understand Heinrich von Kleist's The Marquise of O—. According to this concept, the novella does not narrate an indubitable story, but creates or invents itself as it proceeds, as can be shown in different aspects of the story, such as the way in which the text implicitly treats its characters as actors and the Count's unex…
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The Text as Daemonic Theater
Arguing against the idea of a “true, underlying story,” this article proposes using the concept of transformative poetics to understand Heinrich von Kleist's The Marquise of O—. According to this concept, the novella does not narrate an indubitable story, but creates or invents itself as it proceeds, as can be shown in different aspects of the story, such as the way in which the text implicitly treats its characters as actors and the Count's unex…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Emptiness (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · German Literature and Culture Studies (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Mythology (1 work) · Novella (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work)