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Infectious Hospitality and Communicative Disease in Kleist’s “Der Findling”: The Disease Inside and Out

This article explores contagion alongside and in relation to its ever-attendant metaphors, examining Heinrich von Kleist’s short story “The Foundling”, and finding here a particularly revealing concatenation of ideas of human contact, trade and infection.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: MagShamhráin, Rachel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7371812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32836559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00497-0
Descripción
Sumario:This article explores contagion alongside and in relation to its ever-attendant metaphors, examining Heinrich von Kleist’s short story “The Foundling”, and finding here a particularly revealing concatenation of ideas of human contact, trade and infection.