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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He expresses his sense of loss with the metaphor of the wound : “ Wie ein
blutender Hirsch in den Strom , stürzt ich oft mitten hinein in den Wirbel der
Freude , die brennende Brust zu kühlen und die tobenden herrlichen Träume von
Ruhm und ...
He expresses his sense of loss with the metaphor of the wound : “ Wie ein
blutender Hirsch in den Strom , stürzt ich oft mitten hinein in den Wirbel der
Freude , die brennende Brust zu kühlen und die tobenden herrlichen Träume von
Ruhm und ...
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27 The loss of the mother is a primal experience of trauma . Although unavailable
to consciousness , it has a determining influence on Godwi . Not only does the
stone image of the mother embody Godwi ' s pain and primal trauma ( “ In diesem
...
27 The loss of the mother is a primal experience of trauma . Although unavailable
to consciousness , it has a determining influence on Godwi . Not only does the
stone image of the mother embody Godwi ' s pain and primal trauma ( “ In diesem
...
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Godwi ' s freshly scarred - over wounds refer to his recent experiences of loss ,
specifically his failed relationships with Joduno and Molly . The wounds here are
not only signs of past loss , but also omens of future loss . Brentano writes to
Luise ...
Godwi ' s freshly scarred - over wounds refer to his recent experiences of loss ,
specifically his failed relationships with Joduno and Molly . The wounds here are
not only signs of past loss , but also omens of future loss . Brentano writes to
Luise ...
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Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
We think of nothing excellent without | 36 |
To find a home only in the deep | 78 |
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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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