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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Like all images , it identifies itself as constructed and presented ; yet through its
sheer physicality , the fact that it relates to a specific human body , it attaches
itself to an undeniable empirical certainty . As an image , it sustains the tension ...
Like all images , it identifies itself as constructed and presented ; yet through its
sheer physicality , the fact that it relates to a specific human body , it attaches
itself to an undeniable empirical certainty . As an image , it sustains the tension ...
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And so , people want aesthetic constructs that highlight their own constructed
nature . Like a mosaic that is not a seamless , unified image , but a composite of
shards , this constructed wholeness should highlight its own fragmentary ...
And so , people want aesthetic constructs that highlight their own constructed
nature . Like a mosaic that is not a seamless , unified image , but a composite of
shards , this constructed wholeness should highlight its own fragmentary ...
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constructed that one couldn ' t distinguish them from other people if one didn ' t
know that they ' re simply cardboard ; you could actually make them members of
human society ( 189 ) . ] If finely constructed robots could be members of human ...
constructed that one couldn ' t distinguish them from other people if one didn ' t
know that they ' re simply cardboard ; you could actually make them members of
human society ( 189 ) . ] If finely constructed robots could be members of human ...
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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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