The school of days

the long version

"The School of Days establishes Heinrich von Kleist as a strong voice within the pedagogical debates of his times. Through detailed analyses of works by Rousseau, Jean Paul Richter, Kant, and others, it traces Kleist's response to influential pedagogical theories of the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Nancy Nobile examines the relationship of theory and practice in education to illuminate the novelistic impulse, and thus the role of fiction, in pedagogical endeavors."--BOOK JACKET. "The School of Days provides close readings of works in all genres by Kleist: drama, essay, correspondence, narrative, and lyric. It offers new interpretations of several of Kleist's most familiar works - "Uber das Marionettentheater," "Uber die allmahliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden," Prinz Friedrich von Homburg - and also contains detailed commentary on texts usually ignored by Kleistian scholarship: "Allerneuester Erziehungsplan," "Charite-Vorfall," and other essays written for the Germania, Pbobus, and the Berliner Abendblatter. While Nobile devotes careful attention to textual detail, she firmly anchors her readings within the political, historical, biographical, and philosophical contexts of Kleist's works."--BOOK JACKET.