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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Authors must mark the body in some way ; they must draw readers ' attention to
its physical nature . ... The sign that marks the body requires a narrative , and this
narrative either constitutes or at least influences the larger narrative of the text .
Authors must mark the body in some way ; they must draw readers ' attention to
its physical nature . ... The sign that marks the body requires a narrative , and this
narrative either constitutes or at least influences the larger narrative of the text .
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I read the quotation marks around this passage ( until just before “ So dacht ' ich ”
[ So I thought ] ) as a clear distinction between Hl and H2 . If there were a fusion
of H1 and H2 in this passage , as Aspetsberger argues , 57 the quotation marks ...
I read the quotation marks around this passage ( until just before “ So dacht ' ich ”
[ So I thought ] ) as a clear distinction between Hl and H2 . If there were a fusion
of H1 and H2 in this passage , as Aspetsberger argues , 57 the quotation marks ...
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The defining mark of creation is the wound , a marker of violated wholeness and
a symbol of fragmentation . ... The image of the wound reflects an intermediate
state between total presence and total absence , for it marks the absence of ...
The defining mark of creation is the wound , a marker of violated wholeness and
a symbol of fragmentation . ... The image of the wound reflects an intermediate
state between total presence and total absence , for it marks the absence of ...
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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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