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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Elaine Scarry gives an example to emphasize this point . She discusses the
nature of injuring in war , which “ is remarkable not only for the extremity and
endurance of the relation between body and belief , but simultaneously for the
complete ...
Elaine Scarry gives an example to emphasize this point . She discusses the
nature of injuring in war , which “ is remarkable not only for the extremity and
endurance of the relation between body and belief , but simultaneously for the
complete ...
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For example , Molly , who suffered loss at the hands of Godwi ' s father , claims , “
Man hat mir so viel genommen , daß man bey der Harmonie meines Daseyns
das zerstümmelt hat , was mir noch zugehört " ( 66 ) . [ So much has been taken ...
For example , Molly , who suffered loss at the hands of Godwi ' s father , claims , “
Man hat mir so viel genommen , daß man bey der Harmonie meines Daseyns
das zerstümmelt hat , was mir noch zugehört " ( 66 ) . [ So much has been taken ...
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This manifests itself , for example , as a conflict between individual autonomy and
external forces ( fate , family , the state , and society ) . Hyperion attempts to exert
his autonomy only to portray this action later as an example of naive arrogance ...
This manifests itself , for example , as a conflict between individual autonomy and
external forces ( fate , family , the state , and society ) . Hyperion attempts to exert
his autonomy only to portray this action later as an example of naive arrogance ...
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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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