Reading riddles rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / by Tucker, Brian, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…I -- Riddle and obscurity in early romanticism -- From irritant to ideal: the transvaluation of riddle -- The closed circle of criticism -- Alethic aesthetics: Hegel's riddle of the symbol -- Wordplay and identity in Tieck's early prose -- Pt. …”
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Reading riddles rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / by Tucker, Brian, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…I -- Riddle and obscurity in early romanticism -- From irritant to ideal: the transvaluation of riddle -- The closed circle of criticism -- Alethic aesthetics: Hegel's riddle of the symbol -- Wordplay and identity in Tieck's early prose -- Pt. …”
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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of desire -- Paradise lost : Hawthorne's traumatic narcissism -- As his mother loved him : Hawthorne's "The gentle boy" and Freud's theory of male homosexuality -- Revising the Oedipal Hawthorne : criticism and the forms of narcissism -- Struck by the mask : narcissism, shame, masculinity, and the dread of the visual -- In a pig's eye : masculinity, mastery, and the returned gaze of 'The Blithedale romance' -- The gaze in the garden : femininity, fetishism, and tradition in "Rappaccini's daughter" -- Visual identity : Hawthorne, Melville, and classical male beauty -- A certain dark beauty : narcissism, form, and race in Hawthorne's late work -- The haunted verge : aesthetics, desire, history.…”
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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of desire -- Paradise lost : Hawthorne's traumatic narcissism -- As his mother loved him : Hawthorne's "The gentle boy" and Freud's theory of male homosexuality -- Revising the Oedipal Hawthorne : criticism and the forms of narcissism -- Struck by the mask : narcissism, shame, masculinity, and the dread of the visual -- In a pig's eye : masculinity, mastery, and the returned gaze of 'The Blithedale romance' -- The gaze in the garden : femininity, fetishism, and tradition in "Rappaccini's daughter" -- Visual identity : Hawthorne, Melville, and classical male beauty -- A certain dark beauty : narcissism, form, and race in Hawthorne's late work -- The haunted verge : aesthetics, desire, history.…”
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