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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Even Adam ' s whipping is only symbolic : “ Wie die Perücke ihm den Rücken
peitscht ” ( 1959 ) . [ His wig / Is flapping , lashing Justice Adam ' s back ! ( 69 ) . ]
These symbolic resolutions leave behind remainders and traces as wound - like
...
Even Adam ' s whipping is only symbolic : “ Wie die Perücke ihm den Rücken
peitscht ” ( 1959 ) . [ His wig / Is flapping , lashing Justice Adam ' s back ! ( 69 ) . ]
These symbolic resolutions leave behind remainders and traces as wound - like
...
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holder in the symbolic network , for although its location can be determined , its
nature defies definition . It does not derive its “ positive consistency ” from its
position in the signifying network but in response or “ ' reaction - formation ' to a ...
holder in the symbolic network , for although its location can be determined , its
nature defies definition . It does not derive its “ positive consistency ” from its
position in the signifying network but in response or “ ' reaction - formation ' to a ...
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Lucile recognizes that wounding is an inherent part of the world in which she
lives and that social reality is a symbolic structure . This is evident in her
monologue in the final scene while on the guillotine ' s steps . In contrast to all
previous ...
Lucile recognizes that wounding is an inherent part of the world in which she
lives and that social reality is a symbolic structure . This is evident in her
monologue in the final scene while on the guillotine ' s steps . In contrast to all
previous ...
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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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