Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-century German LiteratureThis book analyzes wounded human bodies in early nineteenth-century German literature and traces their connection to changing philosophical models of the self. It argues that literary representations and metaphors of violence against the body not only offer powerful physical referents for a concept of self, but that they also define violence as an integral component of the self. |
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Hölderlin hoped to diminish the distance between subject and object through
aesthetics . ... 22 Hölderlin sees aesthetics , or “ aesthetic sense , ” as the means
to achieve absolute unification of the two ; 23 yet since absolute harmony
between ...
Hölderlin hoped to diminish the distance between subject and object through
aesthetics . ... 22 Hölderlin sees aesthetics , or “ aesthetic sense , ” as the means
to achieve absolute unification of the two ; 23 yet since absolute harmony
between ...
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In choosing a piece of art as the object in need of healing , she suggests that the
nature of such healing is aesthetic rather than physical . Hyperion must look not
for a political healing , but for a spiritual and aesthetic healing of self . He must ...
In choosing a piece of art as the object in need of healing , she suggests that the
nature of such healing is aesthetic rather than physical . Hyperion must look not
for a political healing , but for a spiritual and aesthetic healing of self . He must ...
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Danton seeks erotic and aesthetic wholeness by figuratively bringing together
numerous body fragments , just as one would compose a mosaic from numerous
shards of tile . A mosaic gives an illusion of wholeness while simultaneously ...
Danton seeks erotic and aesthetic wholeness by figuratively bringing together
numerous body fragments , just as one would compose a mosaic from numerous
shards of tile . A mosaic gives an illusion of wholeness while simultaneously ...
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Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
We think of nothing excellent without | 36 |
To find a home only in the deep | 78 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-century German Literature |
| Autor/in | John B. Lyon |
| Verlag | Bucknell University Press, 2006 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 30. Mai 2008 |
| ISBN | 083875631X, 9780838756317 |
| Länge | 280 Seiten |
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