{"product_id":"literary-conclusions-the-poetics-of-ending-in-lessing-goethe-and-kleist-paperback","title":"Literary Conclusions: The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOliver Simons\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEndings are not just singular moments in time but the outcomes of a process. And whatever a book's conclusion, its form has a history. \u003ci\u003eLiterary Conclusions\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new theory of textual endings in eighteenth-century literature and thought. Analyzing essential works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, Oliver Simons shows how the emergence of new kinds of literary endings around 1800 is inextricably linked to the history of philosophical and scientific concepts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Simons examines the interrelations of Lessing's literary endings with modes of logical conclusion; he highlights how Goethe's narrative closures are forestalled by an uncontrollable vital force that was discussed in the sciences of the time; and he reveals that Kleist conceived of literary genres themselves as forms of reasoning. Kleist's endings, Simons demonstrates, mark the beginning of modernism. Through close readings of these authors and supplemental analyses of works by Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, he crafts an elegant theory of conclusions that revises established histories of literary genres and forms.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOLIVER SIMONS\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Germanic languages at Columbia University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRaumgeschichten: Topographien der Moderne in Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Literatur\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiteraturtheorien zur Einführung\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158819606663,"sku":"9780810144798","price":68.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/895563aa21b815b4770179e3e6d6d801.webp?v=1733261820","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/literary-conclusions-the-poetics-of-ending-in-lessing-goethe-and-kleist-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}