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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They build ideal systems from a rhetoric of fragmented bodies , unaware that
these fragmented bodies will appear in reality . The desired political or
ideological system , however , never finds an exact correlate in empirical reality ;
only the ...
They build ideal systems from a rhetoric of fragmented bodies , unaware that
these fragmented bodies will appear in reality . The desired political or
ideological system , however , never finds an exact correlate in empirical reality ;
only the ...
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They create the illusion of wholeness in order to hide inconsistencies , to deny
fragmentation and to compensate for sensed ... This economy underlies the
action in the drama and all realms of experience ; characters exchange
fragmented ...
They create the illusion of wholeness in order to hide inconsistencies , to deny
fragmentation and to compensate for sensed ... This economy underlies the
action in the drama and all realms of experience ; characters exchange
fragmented ...
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Its fragmented body reminds him of the fragmentation of his own being , in both a
moral and a psychological sense . ... The drama abounds with similar instances ,
moments where fragmentation and rupture threaten both one ' s sense of self 4 ...
Its fragmented body reminds him of the fragmentation of his own being , in both a
moral and a psychological sense . ... The drama abounds with similar instances ,
moments where fragmentation and rupture threaten both one ' s sense of self 4 ...
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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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