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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Primal trauma results in a split that divides the self into competing erotic and
destructive drives that , from Brentano ' s ... The resulting conflict and
ambivalence between the two drives might be characterized as romantic
Zerrissenheit [ inner ...
Primal trauma results in a split that divides the self into competing erotic and
destructive drives that , from Brentano ' s ... The resulting conflict and
ambivalence between the two drives might be characterized as romantic
Zerrissenheit [ inner ...
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This cannot result from his deed , but only from the violence to which it bears
witness . In this case , therefore , the violence of which the present - day law is
seeking in all areas of activity to deprive the individual appears really threatening
, and ...
This cannot result from his deed , but only from the violence to which it bears
witness . In this case , therefore , the violence of which the present - day law is
seeking in all areas of activity to deprive the individual appears really threatening
, and ...
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As a result , one can find beauty only in fragments , never as a whole . Danton ' s
erotic pursuits thus become quests to assemble beautiful bodily fragments into an
aesthetic whole , that , like a mosaic , manifests its own fragmentary ...
As a result , one can find beauty only in fragments , never as a whole . Danton ' s
erotic pursuits thus become quests to assemble beautiful bodily fragments into an
aesthetic whole , that , like a mosaic , manifests its own fragmentary ...
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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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