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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... create a memory for himself ; the most dreadful sacrifices and pledges (
sacrifices of the first - born among them ) , the most repulsive mutilations (
castration , for example ) , the cruelest rites of all religious cults ( and all religions
are at the ...
... create a memory for himself ; the most dreadful sacrifices and pledges (
sacrifices of the first - born among them ) , the most repulsive mutilations (
castration , for example ) , the cruelest rites of all religious cults ( and all religions
are at the ...
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For Molly , creating a whole through art is more than just assembling fragments .
Molly asserts that both the creation and admiration of art are bound up with
wounding and projection of the self . Assembling the fragments to create an
artwork is ...
For Molly , creating a whole through art is more than just assembling fragments .
Molly asserts that both the creation and admiration of art are bound up with
wounding and projection of the self . Assembling the fragments to create an
artwork is ...
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Even the death of the narrator , Maria , is not an act of self - annihilation , but a by
- product of his own attempt to create a monument to Godwi and himself through
his book . We learn that Maria dies from “ eine Zungenentzündung [ , die ] in ...
Even the death of the narrator , Maria , is not an act of self - annihilation , but a by
- product of his own attempt to create a monument to Godwi and himself through
his book . We learn that Maria dies from “ eine Zungenentzündung [ , die ] in ...
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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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Adam aesthetic appear asserts associated attempts beauty become body Brentano Büchner century claim complete concept consciousness constructed create culture Danton death defines describes desire disruption drama earlier early element ends example existence experience forces fragmented function Georg German gives Godwi hand healing historical Hölderlin human Hyperion ideal identity implies indicates individual Kleist lack language letter loss marks meaning mediation metaphor nature nicht notes notion novel object pain passage philosophy physical pitcher political portrays position Press reality reason recognizes reference reflection relation relationship represents result rhetoric romantic rupture sense separation significant similar social speak split status structure suggests symbolic system of power thought tion Translation trauma turn ultimately University Verlag violence Walter Werke wholeness wound wounded body writes