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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He then portrays the development of Greek philosophy as the next historical
development ; once beauty is discovered , a wholeness exists that can be
analyzed philosophically . This resonates with Hölderlin ' s philosophy of identity ,
where ...
He then portrays the development of Greek philosophy as the next historical
development ; once beauty is discovered , a wholeness exists that can be
analyzed philosophically . This resonates with Hölderlin ' s philosophy of identity ,
where ...
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In pressing beauty into his service , the father forces the artistic medium to be
beautiful , while at the same time making artistic pro duction fundamentally
violent . Art , for Godwi ' s father , is not a moral escape from violence , but rather
an ...
In pressing beauty into his service , the father forces the artistic medium to be
beautiful , while at the same time making artistic pro duction fundamentally
violent . Art , for Godwi ' s father , is not a moral escape from violence , but rather
an ...
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Recall Danton ' s search for physical beauty and wholeness , cited earlier , where
he makes a “ mosaic " from the body parts of numerous prostitutes . Danton seeks
erotic and aesthetic wholeness by figuratively bringing together numerous ...
Recall Danton ' s search for physical beauty and wholeness , cited earlier , where
he makes a “ mosaic " from the body parts of numerous prostitutes . Danton seeks
erotic and aesthetic wholeness by figuratively bringing together numerous ...
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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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| 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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