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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781008403321

Autore

Lyon John B. <1966->

Titolo

Crafting flesh, crafting the self [[electronic resource] ] : violence and identity in early nineteenth-century German literature / / John B. Lyon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, [Penn.], : Bucknell University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8387-5870-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

830.9/353

Soggetti

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Wounds and injuries in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Büchner's Danton's death.