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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With three chapters devoted to its description and an abundant discussion in the
critical literature , this work of art is arguably the most significant moment in the
novel . The statue ' s proximity to the statue of Godwi ' s mother suggests that ...
With three chapters devoted to its description and an abundant discussion in the
critical literature , this work of art is arguably the most significant moment in the
novel . The statue ' s proximity to the statue of Godwi ' s mother suggests that ...
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The statue represents a moment of ambivalence , 47 where contradictory
heavenward and earthward strivings are united . The wound gives the statue its
unity , yet this wound does not exist in the world of the novel . As the word like ...
The statue represents a moment of ambivalence , 47 where contradictory
heavenward and earthward strivings are united . The wound gives the statue its
unity , yet this wound does not exist in the world of the novel . As the word like ...
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This syntactic identity crisis — the lack of a clearly defined subject - mirrors an
individual crisis , when one reads Maria ' s account of first glimpsing the statue
from the window of his chamber : “ Ich . . . blickte mit sinkenden Augen hinaus ,
und ...
This syntactic identity crisis — the lack of a clearly defined subject - mirrors an
individual crisis , when one reads Maria ' s account of first glimpsing the statue
from the window of his chamber : “ Ich . . . blickte mit sinkenden Augen hinaus ,
und ...
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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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