02984nam 2200637 450 991080988940332120230421054947.03-11-092596-610.1515/9783110925968(CKB)3390000000034692(EBL)3043621(OCoLC)922946833(SSID)ssj0000849187(PQKBManifestationID)11459336(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000849187(PQKBWorkID)10812819(PQKB)11111760(MiAaPQ)EBC3043621(DE-B1597)45193(OCoLC)1013964836(OCoLC)853243939(DE-B1597)9783110925968(Au-PeEL)EBL3043621(CaPaEBR)ebr10772705(EXLCZ)99339000000003469219980401d1993 uy| 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrArtificial I's the self as artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann /Eric DowningReprint 2013Tübingen :Max Niemeyer,1993.1 online resource (249 p.)Studien zur deutschen Literatur,0081-7236 ;Band 127Description based upon print version of record.3-11-182132-3 3-484-18127-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-244).Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1: Ovid and the Ars Amatoria --Chapter 2: Kierkegaard and the »Diary of the Seducer« --Chapter 3: Thomas Mann and the early Felix Krull --Chapter 4: Thomas Mann and the late Felix Krull --Conclusion --BibliographyThis study explores three works in which the protagonist undertakes to fashion a literary artwork out of himself: Ovid's »Ars Amatoria«, Kierkegaard's »Diary of the Seducer«, and Thomas Mann's »Felix Krull«. For each work, particular attention is paid to the self-conscious interplay between the author's project of book-making and the character's project of self-making, as well as to the effect of changing notions of self-identity on the protagonist's attempt at life as literature. For »Felix Krull«, this includes a sustained analysis of Mann's incorporation and problematization of various Nietzschean models of aesthestics, reality, and self-identity. In Ovid and Kierkegaard, this study also considers a related project, the attempt to fashion a literary artwork out of another, namely out of a woman.Studien zur deutschen Literatur ;Bd. 127.Persona (Literature)First person narrativePersona (Literature)First person narrative.809/.923Downing Eric607469MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809889403321Artificial I's4069900UNINA