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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One finds only one other reference to the wound before the Athengespräch , the
extended “ Conversation on Athens ” that concludes the first volume of the novel .
This respite from wounding suggests that while he is with Diotima , Hyperion ...
One finds only one other reference to the wound before the Athengespräch , the
extended “ Conversation on Athens ” that concludes the first volume of the novel .
This respite from wounding suggests that while he is with Diotima , Hyperion ...
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9 Language and signs are part of an unending signifying chain - signifiers that
refer to other signifiers in a never - ending succession , lacking a fixed reference
point . 10 The symbolic arises from an interruption in this chain ; something stops
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9 Language and signs are part of an unending signifying chain - signifiers that
refer to other signifiers in a never - ending succession , lacking a fixed reference
point . 10 The symbolic arises from an interruption in this chain ; something stops
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The primary reference point structures and gives meaning to the symbolic order ,
creating an impression of totality . It excludes chaotic tendencies , which Lacan
associates with desire , and enforces a rigid , hierarchical symbolic structure .
The primary reference point structures and gives meaning to the symbolic order ,
creating an impression of totality . It excludes chaotic tendencies , which Lacan
associates with desire , and enforces a rigid , hierarchical symbolic structure .
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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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