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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44 Physiognomy considers the body an external sign of human character ; its aim
is to determine the inner character of individuals from their physical exterior .
Lavater ' s reasoning lends insight into contemporary assumptions about the ...
44 Physiognomy considers the body an external sign of human character ; its aim
is to determine the inner character of individuals from their physical exterior .
Lavater ' s reasoning lends insight into contemporary assumptions about the ...
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14 This substance must mediate between both external and internal stimuli .
Consciousness is the protective , mediating , and intractable layer between the
stimuli of the internal and the external world . Wounding and scars on the bubble
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14 This substance must mediate between both external and internal stimuli .
Consciousness is the protective , mediating , and intractable layer between the
stimuli of the internal and the external world . Wounding and scars on the bubble
...
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Although both bemoan external determinism , there are nearly identical
passages in each that focus on disruption of this external order by something
internal . The question “ What is it in us that whores , lies , steals , and murders ? ”
resonates ...
Although both bemoan external determinism , there are nearly identical
passages in each that focus on disruption of this external order by something
internal . The question “ What is it in us that whores , lies , steals , and murders ? ”
resonates ...
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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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Adam aesthetic appear asserts associated attempts beauty become body Brentano Büchner century claim complete concept consciousness constructed create culture Danton death defines describes desire disruption drama earlier early element ends example existence experience external forces fragmented function Georg German gives Godwi hand healing historical Hölderlin human Hyperion ideal identity implies indicates individual Kleist lack language letter loss marks meaning mediation metaphor nature nicht notion novel object pain passage philosophy physical pitcher political portrays position possible Press reality reason recognizes reference reflection relation relationship represents result rhetoric romantic rupture sense separation significant similar social speak specifically split statue structure suggests symbolic system of power thought tion Translation trauma turn ultimately University Verlag violence Walter Werke wholeness wound wounded body writing
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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