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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64 In assuming dramatically different subject positions , the ironist can create
new perspectives at the same time he or she ... For where Schlegel sees a split
that creates a new subject position and the possibility to transcend and
reconstitute ...
64 In assuming dramatically different subject positions , the ironist can create
new perspectives at the same time he or she ... For where Schlegel sees a split
that creates a new subject position and the possibility to transcend and
reconstitute ...
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81 The Kleistian self always maintains a precarious position , threatened with
disruption on the one hand and compelled to violence on the other . Like the arch
in “ The Chilean Earthquake , ” the self as active subject is only a temporary ...
81 The Kleistian self always maintains a precarious position , threatened with
disruption on the one hand and compelled to violence on the other . Like the arch
in “ The Chilean Earthquake , ” the self as active subject is only a temporary ...
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( I can ' t tell what part of me is deceiving the other ( 77 ) . ] Individuals are thus
plagued by a sense of guilt arising from their violent entrance into the signifying
network and their intermediary position between the real and the symbolic .
Where ...
( I can ' t tell what part of me is deceiving the other ( 77 ) . ] Individuals are thus
plagued by a sense of guilt arising from their violent entrance into the signifying
network and their intermediary position between the real and the symbolic .
Where ...
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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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