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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781316803321

Autore

Tucker Brian <1976->

Titolo

Reading riddles [[electronic resource] ] : rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / / Brian Tucker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, N.Y., : Bucknell University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-16354-3

9786613163547

1-61148-029-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

New studies in the age of Goethe

Disciplina

830.9/145

Soggetti

German literature - 18th century - History and criticism

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Riddles in literature

Symbolism in literature

Romanticism - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 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. II -- Reading the psyche: the human riddle -- The inaugural gesture of psychoanalysis -- The joke and its other: toward a Freudian concept of riddle -- The riddle as Freud's textual model -- Trauma and the other Oedipus complex.

Sommario/riassunto

Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level