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 preceeding paragraph Hyperion describes the Germans as barbaric ,
godless , “ dumpf und harmonielos , wie die Scherben eines weggeworfenen
Gefäßes ” ( 153 ) . [ hollow and tuneless , like the shards of a discarded pot ( 128
) . ] ...
In the preceeding paragraph Hyperion describes the Germans as barbaric ,
godless , “ dumpf und harmonielos , wie die Scherben eines weggeworfenen
Gefäßes ” ( 153 ) . [ hollow and tuneless , like the shards of a discarded pot ( 128
) . ] ...
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Brown describes this shift as a turn away from playful striving for the absolute and
toward the inner , limited self . One might also describe it as a turn away from the
foundations of transcendental idealist philosophy and toward psychology , or ...
Brown describes this shift as a turn away from playful striving for the absolute and
toward the inner , limited self . One might also describe it as a turn away from the
foundations of transcendental idealist philosophy and toward psychology , or ...
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17 Although at first glance this might describe Adam , I believe that it more
accurately describes Walter . The figure who more closely resembles Adam is
Benjamin ' s notorious criminal . Benjamin describes the criminal ' s violence as a
threat ...
17 Although at first glance this might describe Adam , I believe that it more
accurately describes Walter . The figure who more closely resembles Adam is
Benjamin ' s notorious criminal . Benjamin describes the criminal ' s violence as a
threat ...
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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
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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