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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Instability characterizes models of power and of consciousness in the drama ,
and this instability also extends to language . Kleist ' s use of entzwei and flicken ,
for example , suggests a more violent and destructive meaning than one might ...
Instability characterizes models of power and of consciousness in the drama ,
and this instability also extends to language . Kleist ' s use of entzwei and flicken ,
for example , suggests a more violent and destructive meaning than one might ...
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This is evident in the language of physical wounding in the drama . Büchner
relegates instances of wounding in the drama almost exclusively to a linguistic
and rhetorical level . The drama stages rhetoric in its classic Aristotelian sense as
...
This is evident in the language of physical wounding in the drama . Büchner
relegates instances of wounding in the drama almost exclusively to a linguistic
and rhetorical level . The drama stages rhetoric in its classic Aristotelian sense as
...
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By subverting the jailer ' s language , he subverts , if only momentarily , the
hierarchical structure that gives him his power . His coworker changes the subject
from authority to finances , indicating that this wordplay , continued too long , will
...
By subverting the jailer ' s language , he subverts , if only momentarily , the
hierarchical structure that gives him his power . His coworker changes the subject
from authority to finances , indicating that this wordplay , continued too long , will
...
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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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