Crafting flesh, crafting the self violence and identity in early nineteenth-century German literature /

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Main Author: Lyon, John B., 1966-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg, [Penn.] : Bucknell University Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • The divided self: "We think of nothing excellent without thinking of its distorted opposite": Friedrich Holderlin's Hyperion
  • Trauma and the self: "To find a home only in the deep scar 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 B�uchner's Danton's death.