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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The “ infinite approximation ” of subject and object in the novel will entail coming
to terms with his own status as a reflecting and writing subject . In the initial
chapters Hyperion alternates between moments of extreme oneness with being
where ...
The “ infinite approximation ” of subject and object in the novel will entail coming
to terms with his own status as a reflecting and writing subject . In the initial
chapters Hyperion alternates between moments of extreme oneness with being
where ...
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His extreme assertion of his role as subject ultimately collapses into its opposite ,
a painful awareness of his status as object . For Hyperion , the object of narration
( H1 ) , this is devastating , as the tone of the above passage indicates , yet for ...
His extreme assertion of his role as subject ultimately collapses into its opposite ,
a painful awareness of his status as object . For Hyperion , the object of narration
( H1 ) , this is devastating , as the tone of the above passage indicates , yet for ...
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He asserts his status ... encounter the wound , the first thing you ” note is that it
likewise has the power to speak ( “ speaks to you with the bloody lips of an open
wound ” ) , indicating that it is a subject similar , if not identical in status , to Maria .
He asserts his status ... encounter the wound , the first thing you ” note is that it
likewise has the power to speak ( “ speaks to you with the bloody lips of an open
wound ” ) , indicating that it is a subject similar , if not identical in status , to Maria .
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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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