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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5 If it relates directly to anything , then it is only to physicality in an extreme sense
; through violating the physical wholeness of the body it draws attention to this
lost wholeness , to the violence that perpetrated it , and specifically to the sheer ...
5 If it relates directly to anything , then it is only to physicality in an extreme sense
; through violating the physical wholeness of the body it draws attention to this
lost wholeness , to the violence that perpetrated it , and specifically to the sheer ...
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He must develop aesthetic sense , for only this can bring about the reconciliation
of self and nation . Diotima thus makes Hyperion aware of his poetic calling and
links it to the wound . In doing so , she transforms his understanding of this ...
He must develop aesthetic sense , for only this can bring about the reconciliation
of self and nation . Diotima thus makes Hyperion aware of his poetic calling and
links it to the wound . In doing so , she transforms his understanding of this ...
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arrival in Athens , so is Hyperion ' s sense of resignation and particularly his
diminished sense of self his conscious disability upon arrival in Germany . He
equates this disability with physical wounding and this is apt , for it arises from the
“ self ...
arrival in Athens , so is Hyperion ' s sense of resignation and particularly his
diminished sense of self his conscious disability upon arrival in Germany . He
equates this disability with physical wounding and this is apt , for it arises from the
“ self ...
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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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