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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790414403321

Titolo

The self as muse [[electronic resource]] : narcissism and creativity in the German imagination, 1750-1830 / / edited by Alexander Mathäs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Bucknell University Press

Plymouth, England, : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011

ISBN

1-61148-033-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 222 p.) : ill

Collana

Transits : Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850

Altri autori (Persone)

MathäsAlexander <1951->

Disciplina

830.9/353

Soggetti

German literature - 18th century - History and criticism

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Narcissism - Germany - History

Narcissism in literature

Self in literature

Subjectivity in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Narcissism and the self: an introduction / Alexander Mathäs -- Part I: Narcissism and the senses. Narcissism and the sublime / Alexander Mathäs; -- Narcissism, the self, and empathy: the paradox that created modern literature / Fritz Breithaupt -- Part II: Narcissism and morality. Self-reflection and knowledge of self in Hamann's early philosophical and aesthetic writings / F. Corey Roberts; Narcissistic investments and transformations in Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel's Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender Linie and Über die Ehe / Ann Schmiesing; "Some day my prince will come": Fürstenspiegel and the bourgeois writer / Gail K. Hart -- Part III: Over and against Freud. Werther's sentimental narcissism: consciousness, communication, and the origin of the modern psyche / Edgar Landgraf; -- "I suffered and I loved": narcissism and abject desire in Goethe's "Confessions of a beautiful soul" / Susan Gustafson -- Part IV: Reading and writing narcissism. Textual narcissism in Kleist's "Über das Marionettentheater" / Richard Block; That Specter in my name:



writing and its mirror effects in Hoffmann and Poe / Martin Klebes.