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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The wound becomes the moment of primal trauma to which the narrator must
return repeatedly ( “ and if you must return to this wound eternally ' ' ) , and this
primal trauma , represented by the wound , produces a number of supposedly ...
The wound becomes the moment of primal trauma to which the narrator must
return repeatedly ( “ and if you must return to this wound eternally ' ' ) , and this
primal trauma , represented by the wound , produces a number of supposedly ...
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In other words , the pitcher represents history not only on the level of visual
metaphor , by providing an image of historical change , but also on the level of
metonymy , as part of a greater political history . Pursuing this metonymic
relationship to ...
In other words , the pitcher represents history not only on the level of visual
metaphor , by providing an image of historical change , but also on the level of
metonymy , as part of a greater political history . Pursuing this metonymic
relationship to ...
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One can view these as two sides of the same coin : the wound represents the
limitation and restriction that inspires revolution and change , yet it also
represents the violent results of revolution and change . In other words , as
Benjamin ...
One can view these as two sides of the same coin : the wound represents the
limitation and restriction that inspires revolution and change , yet it also
represents the violent results of revolution and change . In other words , as
Benjamin ...
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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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