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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For example , in her anthropological study of amputees on the Thai - Cambodia
border , Lindsay French notes that amputation evokes a visceral response in
observers , for “ it challenges our own sense of bodily integrity , and conjures up ...
For example , in her anthropological study of amputees on the Thai - Cambodia
border , Lindsay French notes that amputation evokes a visceral response in
observers , for “ it challenges our own sense of bodily integrity , and conjures up ...
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Elaine Scarry gives an example to emphasize this point . She discusses the
nature of injuring in war , which “ is remarkable not only for the extremity and
endurance of the relation between body and belief , but simultaneously for the
complete ...
Elaine Scarry gives an example to emphasize this point . She discusses the
nature of injuring in war , which “ is remarkable not only for the extremity and
endurance of the relation between body and belief , but simultaneously for the
complete ...
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In the first paragraph one finds the repetition of three similar natural catastrophes
, then their three corresponding results , all linked together under the same verb (
another example of tricolon ) . The second paragraph follows a similar pattern ...
In the first paragraph one finds the repetition of three similar natural catastrophes
, then their three corresponding results , all linked together under the same verb (
another example of tricolon ) . The second paragraph follows a similar pattern ...
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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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