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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Although one might expect violence in the tempestuous and rebellious writings of
the Sturm und Drang era ( one thinks , for example , of the castration in Lenz ' s
The Private Tutor ) , one would not expect it in philosophical writings on beauty ...
Although one might expect violence in the tempestuous and rebellious writings of
the Sturm und Drang era ( one thinks , for example , of the castration in Lenz ' s
The Private Tutor ) , one would not expect it in philosophical writings on beauty ...
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It ' s a shame that nature has cut up beauty into pieces , like Medea her brother ,
and has put the fragments into our bodies . ] ( 70 ) Lacroix applies metaphors of
bodily mutilation to erotic and aesthetic subject matter . He posits beauty as a ...
It ' s a shame that nature has cut up beauty into pieces , like Medea her brother ,
and has put the fragments into our bodies . ] ( 70 ) Lacroix applies metaphors of
bodily mutilation to erotic and aesthetic subject matter . He posits beauty as a ...
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Recall Danton ' s search for physical beauty and wholeness , cited earlier , where
he makes a " mosaic " from the body parts of numerous prostitutes . Danton seeks
erotic and aesthetic wholeness by figuratively bringing together numerous ...
Recall Danton ' s search for physical beauty and wholeness , cited earlier , where
he makes a " mosaic " from the body parts of numerous prostitutes . Danton seeks
erotic and aesthetic wholeness by figuratively bringing together numerous ...
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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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