{"product_id":"literary-conclusions-oliver-simons-9780810144804","title":"Literary Conclusions: The Poetics of Ending in Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist","description":"Endings 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. \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 Hderlin, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, he crafts an elegant theory of conclusions that revises established histories of literary genres and forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Simons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810144808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810144804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.06w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2023","brand":"Oliver Simons","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44058503676159,"sku":"9780810144804","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40e8576d-6895-4d60-bc91-e2c0340731e8.jpg?v=1685052939","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literary-conclusions-oliver-simons-9780810144804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}