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

• Autore: Tucker Brian <1976->
• Pubblicazione: Lewisburg, N.Y., : Bucknell University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 830.9/145
• Soggetto topico: German literature - 18th century - History and criticism; German literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Riddles in literature; Symbolism in literature; Romanticism - Germany
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading riddles
• ISBN: 1-283-16354-3; 9786613163547; 1-61148-029-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781316803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New studies in the age of Goethe.