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 represents a shift away from classicism and romanticism and toward models
of thought that emphasize social structures , power , and materialism . The self for
Kleist is inextricably entwined in social systems of power . Whereas in both ...
He represents a shift away from classicism and romanticism and toward models
of thought that emphasize social structures , power , and materialism . The self for
Kleist is inextricably entwined in social systems of power . Whereas in both ...
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The social self is a construct , determined by external forces . Valerio ' s depiction
of humans as robots resonates with Danton ' s justification of the “ September
murders . ” Danton attributes his actions to social and historical necessity ( “ Das
...
The social self is a construct , determined by external forces . Valerio ' s depiction
of humans as robots resonates with Danton ' s justification of the “ September
murders . ” Danton attributes his actions to social and historical necessity ( “ Das
...
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both the larger social order as well as the identity it constructs . They also allow
one to define , if only generally , the aspect of the Büchnerian self that is
independent of this larger social order . This self , like the Lacanian subject ,
resists and ...
both the larger social order as well as the identity it constructs . They also allow
one to define , if only generally , the aspect of the Büchnerian self that is
independent of this larger social order . This self , like the Lacanian subject ,
resists and ...
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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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