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 wounded body is thus a privileged site for philosophical and ideological
struggle . In this study I focus on the role of the body in cultural and philosophical
change , specifically on how representations of the body reflect transformations in
...
The wounded body is thus a privileged site for philosophical and ideological
struggle . In this study I focus on the role of the body in cultural and philosophical
change , specifically on how representations of the body reflect transformations in
...
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32 Referring to the postmodern age , Nancy recognizes that the wound has long
exhausted the ability to signify something other than itself , that misfortune ,
malediction , health , and illness are only meanings projected onto the wounded
body ...
32 Referring to the postmodern age , Nancy recognizes that the wound has long
exhausted the ability to signify something other than itself , that misfortune ,
malediction , health , and illness are only meanings projected onto the wounded
body ...
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4 In Borchert ' s Draußen vor der Tür ( The Man Outside ) , Beckmann returns to
Germany with a leg wound only to find himself excluded and ... Indeed , the
wounded body has become a privileged bearer of meaning for the modern world
.
4 In Borchert ' s Draußen vor der Tür ( The Man Outside ) , Beckmann returns to
Germany with a leg wound only to find himself excluded and ... Indeed , the
wounded body has become a privileged bearer of meaning for the modern world
.
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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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