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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By writing about the Germans as wounded and suffering , Hyperion implies that
he has been similarly wounded and that , to some degree , these wounds can be
healed ; in the last paragraph he suggests that writing will accomplish this .
By writing about the Germans as wounded and suffering , Hyperion implies that
he has been similarly wounded and that , to some degree , these wounds can be
healed ; in the last paragraph he suggests that writing will accomplish this .
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With “ More soon ” he promises to continue writing , identifying himself as a
writing subject , particularly a poet . In so doing he implies that he will not give
himself over wholly to a unity void of consciousness , but will instead through
writing and ...
With “ More soon ” he promises to continue writing , identifying himself as a
writing subject , particularly a poet . In so doing he implies that he will not give
himself over wholly to a unity void of consciousness , but will instead through
writing 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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