The Making of a Terrorist: On Classic German Rogues

by Jeffrey Champlin

In The Making of a Terrorist, Jeffrey Champlin examines key figures from three canonical texts from the German-language literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Goethe's Gotz von Berlichingen, Schiller's Die Rauber, and Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas. Champlin situates these readings within a larger theoretical and historical context, exploring the mechanics, aesthetics, and poetics of terror while...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810130106
• ISBN13: 9780810130104
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 9.1"