1. Percy Bysshe Shelley On looking at Shelley's Medusa: "On the medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery" -- Unbinding words: Prometheus unbound -- 2. Emily Brontë At the threshold of interpretation: Wuthering Heights -- 3. Heinrich von Kleist The rhetorics of feminism: Penthesilea -- A delicate joke: Prince Friedrich von Homburg -- Soothsaying and rebellion: Michael Kohlhaas -- The unclosable wound: "The duel" -- The style of Kleist: "The style of God", "The foundling," and "Improbable veracities"