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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For example , the wound functions as a contrastive element , so that its extreme
focus on physical temporality and fragmentation intimates wholeness and
permanence . Early in the novel Hyperion states , " Das ist der Gewinn , den uns
...
For example , the wound functions as a contrastive element , so that its extreme
focus on physical temporality and fragmentation intimates wholeness and
permanence . Early in the novel Hyperion states , " Das ist der Gewinn , den uns
...
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He has either rejected or forgotten Diotima ' s explanation of his poetic calling ,
for rather than heal a metaphorical wound by aesthetic means , he yearns to
inflict physical wounds in a political struggle . He sees this as the ultimate
assertion of ...
He has either rejected or forgotten Diotima ' s explanation of his poetic calling ,
for rather than heal a metaphorical wound by aesthetic means , he yearns to
inflict physical wounds in a political struggle . He sees this as the ultimate
assertion of ...
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Brentano portrays trauma as a physical experience , for he contrasts physical
experience with rational and linguistic experience when he compares his
memories to the words of dead languages and contrasts them with his scars ,
which are ...
Brentano portrays trauma as a physical experience , for he contrasts physical
experience with rational and linguistic experience when he compares his
memories to the words of dead languages and contrasts them with his scars ,
which are ...
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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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