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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Art can be at best fragmentary in its attempt to represent an ideal whole , 42
defined as love . Molly posits this ideal totality of love from each of her personal
experiences of love , none of which in itself was an experience of totality . Molly
differs ...
Art can be at best fragmentary in its attempt to represent an ideal whole , 42
defined as love . Molly posits this ideal totality of love from each of her personal
experiences of love , none of which in itself was an experience of totality . Molly
differs ...
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They desire an ideal , a constructed illusion of completeness , whether conveyed
through strict poetic form , personification and ornamentation , or a traditional
sense of closure . They demand form and a sense of totality , which is why formal
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They desire an ideal , a constructed illusion of completeness , whether conveyed
through strict poetic form , personification and ornamentation , or a traditional
sense of closure . They demand form and a sense of totality , which is why formal
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Brentano ' s contemporary , Novalis , championed the ideal of a lost golden age ,
and his novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen presents the ideal of the lost golden age
in multiple embedded narratives , most notably Klingsohr ' s fairy tale ( chapter 9 )
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Brentano ' s contemporary , Novalis , championed the ideal of a lost golden age ,
and his novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen presents the ideal of the lost golden age
in multiple embedded narratives , most notably Klingsohr ' s fairy tale ( chapter 9 )
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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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