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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In the limited context of defending against plunderers , the wound is “ honorable ,
" but in the broader context of bringing the plunderers to the city , the wound is
dishonorable . Both interpretations , however , are projections by the narrator
onto ...
In the limited context of defending against plunderers , the wound is “ honorable ,
" but in the broader context of bringing the plunderers to the city , the wound is
dishonorable . Both interpretations , however , are projections by the narrator
onto ...
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The wound gives the statue its unity , yet this wound does not exist in the world of
the novel . As the word like ( gleichsam ] indicates , it is a simile , a rhetorical use
of the wound . As Marlies Janz points out , “ the statue of Violetta does not have ...
The wound gives the statue its unity , yet this wound does not exist in the world of
the novel . As the word like ( gleichsam ] indicates , it is a simile , a rhetorical use
of the wound . As Marlies Janz points out , “ the statue of Violetta does not have ...
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( 363 ) [ if the beautiful , pleasing breast then speaks to you with the bloody lips of
an open wound , what the dignity of the head and the secretive trust of the lap did
not say to you , if all your pleasure sinks into this wound , as into her grave , and ...
( 363 ) [ if the beautiful , pleasing breast then speaks to you with the bloody lips of
an open wound , what the dignity of the head and the secretive trust of the lap did
not say to you , if all your pleasure sinks into this wound , as into her grave , and ...
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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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