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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... as an object of another ' s action . He is not a subject who has lost a
possession or a person , but a nonhuman object on whom another ' s departure
inflicts a wound . He attempts to endow this wound ( and therefore his status as
an object ) ...
... as an object of another ' s action . He is not a subject who has lost a
possession or a person , but a nonhuman object on whom another ' s departure
inflicts a wound . He attempts to endow this wound ( and therefore his status as
an object ) ...
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Their endeavors to assert themselves against forces such as fate and nature
prove futile ; they attempt to exceed the bounds set by fate ... Their attempts to
wound are extreme assertions of themselves as subjects , yet ultimately prove
futile .
Their endeavors to assert themselves against forces such as fate and nature
prove futile ; they attempt to exceed the bounds set by fate ... Their attempts to
wound are extreme assertions of themselves as subjects , yet ultimately prove
futile .
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61 Adam counters Licht ' s attempts to separate the figurative from the literal in
language with an entirely literal usage . Whereas Licht ' s " un - ” suggests the
absence of an image , Adam ' s suggests a disturbing and distorted presence .
61 Adam counters Licht ' s attempts to separate the figurative from the literal in
language with an entirely literal usage . Whereas Licht ' s " un - ” suggests the
absence of an image , Adam ' s suggests a disturbing and distorted presence .
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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 | die University of Virginia |
| Digitalisiert | 6. Mai 2008 |
| ISBN | 083875631X, 9780838756317 |
| Länge | 280 Seiten |
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