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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As much as we disapprove of his behavior , he evokes our sympathy and helps
us enjoy the potential disruption of a dominant system of power . What intrigues
me in Benjamin ' s two figures is not only their similarity to the figures in Kleist ' s ...
As much as we disapprove of his behavior , he evokes our sympathy and helps
us enjoy the potential disruption of a dominant system of power . What intrigues
me in Benjamin ' s two figures is not only their similarity to the figures in Kleist ' s ...
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26 For Benjamin , true change in systems of power will not result from revolutions
— which ultimately change only the laws governing violence but still use violence
for purposes that are both lawmaking and law - preserving — but rather from ...
26 For Benjamin , true change in systems of power will not result from revolutions
— which ultimately change only the laws governing violence but still use violence
for purposes that are both lawmaking and law - preserving — but rather from ...
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In this regard , Adam represents the paradigm of the Kleistian self - constantly
asserting his own power and constantly disrupting the system of power .
Constantly threatened by discovery , disruption , and wounding , he repeatedly
manages to ...
In this regard , Adam represents the paradigm of the Kleistian self - constantly
asserting his own power and constantly disrupting the system of power .
Constantly threatened by discovery , disruption , and wounding , he repeatedly
manages to ...
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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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