Gespenstische Gewissensmahnung in Kleists

The meaning of this ghosts’ story is only revealed if their apparition is understood not as a punishment but as an urge to moral reform and if the final catastrophe is seen as resulting from the refusal to take the latter into account. A close analysis of the text, through the prism of theologica...

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spelling cairn-EGER_320_0553EGERÉtudes Germaniques https://shs.cairn.info/revue-etudes-germaniques-2025-4-page-553?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/eger.320.0553 Gespenstische Gewissensmahnung in Kleists Hillenbrand, Rainer2025 fre Études Germaniques | Octobre-décembre – 80e aée | 4 | 2025-12-28 | p. 553-566 | 0014-2115 EGER_32016 The meaning of this ghosts’ story is only revealed if their apparition is understood not as a punishment but as an urge to moral reform and if the final catastrophe is seen as resulting from the refusal to take the latter into account. A close analysis of the text, through the prism of theological, psychiatric and literary sources, shows that what is at stake, in the fate of the beggar reiterating the walk towards death, is the incarnation that is typical of this kind of narratives, that is to say the divine voice of conscience. Thus, in line with romantic poetology, the inside becomes the outside and the invisible makes itself visible. Le sens de cette histoire de fantômes ne se découvre que si l’on comprend l’apparition non comme une punition mais comme une exhortation à l’amendement moral et que l’on voit dans la catastrophe finale la conséquence du refus d’en tenir compte. Une analyse précise du texte, conduite sur la base de sources théologiques, psychiatriques et littéraires montre que l’on a affaire, dans le destin de la mendiante réitérant la marche à la mort, à l’incarnation propre à ce genre de récit, à la voix divine de la conscience. Ainsi, conformément à la poétologie romantique, l’intérieur s’extériorise et l’invisible se rend visible. Cairn restricted access
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description The meaning of this ghosts’ story is only revealed if their apparition is understood not as a punishment but as an urge to moral reform and if the final catastrophe is seen as resulting from the refusal to take the latter into account. A close analysis of the text, through the prism of theological, psychiatric and literary sources, shows that what is at stake, in the fate of the beggar reiterating the walk towards death, is the incarnation that is typical of this kind of narratives, that is to say the divine voice of conscience. Thus, in line with romantic poetology, the inside becomes the outside and the invisible makes itself visible.
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Gespenstische Gewissensmahnung in Kleists
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