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

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)378-384
Number of pages7
JournalSociety
Volume57
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2020

Keywords

  • Contagion
  • Currency
  • Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)
  • Human contact
  • Metaphors of disease an infection
  • Trade

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