Figures of Simplicity

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A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: On Subterranean Connections	p. xiii
Aesthetics: Sensation and Thinking Reconsidered	p. 1
The Copernican Turn	p. 7
The Folds of Small Perceptions	p. 11
Sensate Thinking	p. 19
Figures of Simplicity	p. 22
Sentimentalities	p. 27
Befuddling the Senses (The Betrothal in St. Domingo)	p. 31
Spectacularly Simple: Well-Willingly Seeing Nothing (Benito Cereno)	p. 41
Sentimentalizing Resentment	p. 53
Affectivity	p. 56
Resolute Simplicity (Billy Budd, Sailor. An inside narrative)	p. 62
Calculating Mindlessness (Michael Kohlhaas)	p. 76
Baroque Heroes	p. 85
Insistence	p. 88
On Passive Resistance (Bartleby, the Scrivener. A story of Wall-Street)	p. 90
Lingering before Consciousness (Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe)	p. 96
Supersensible Figures of the Fold	p. 109
Conclusion	p. 113
Notes	p. 120
Bibliography	p. 139
Index	p. 146
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