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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lyon, John B., 1966- Crafting flesh, crafting the self. Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)607694685 Online version: Lyon, John B., 1966- Crafting flesh, crafting the self. Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)629351043 |
Named Person: | Friedrich Holderlin; Clemens Brentano; Georg Buchner; Heinrich von Kleist; Friedrich Hölderlin; Clemens Brentano; Heinrich{von Kleist; Georg Büchner |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John B Lyon |
ISBN: | 083875631X 9780838756317 |
OCLC Number: | 61881163 |
Description: | 280 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The divided self: "We think of nothing excellent without thinking of its distorted opposite": Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion -- Trauma and the self: "To find a home only in the deep scars of my wounds": Clemens Brentano's Godwi -- The self and systems of power: "To recognize the culprit by his wound": Heinrich von Kleist's The broken pitcher -- Violence and the tenacity of the self: "I am something, that's the misery of it!": Georg Büchner's Danton's death. |
Responsibility: | John B. Lyon. |
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Abstract:
Analyzes wounded human bodies in early 19th-century German literature and traces their connection to philosophical models of the self. This book argues that literary representations and metaphors of violence against the body not only offer physical referents for a concept of self, but also define violence as an integral component of the self.
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- German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Wounds and injuries in literature.
- German literature.
- Holderlin, Friedrich, -- 1770-1843. -- Hyperion.
- Brentano, Clemens, -- 1778-1842.
- Buchner, Georg, -- 1813-1837. -- Dantons Tod.
- Kleist, Heinrich von, -- 1777-1811. -- Zerbrochene Krug.
- Violence in literature.
- Philosophy, German -- 19th century.
- Hölderlin, Friedrich.
- Brentano, Clemens.
- Kleist, Heinrich{von.
- Büchner, Georg.
- Hyperion, oder der Eremit in Griechenland.
- Der zerbrochne Krug.
- Godwi oder das steinerne Bild der Mutter.
- Dantons Tod.
- Gewalt <Motiv>
- Literatur.
- Körper <Motiv>
- Wunde <Motiv>
- Verletzung <Motiv>
- Deutsch.