Artificial I's : the self as artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann / / Eric Downing

• Autore: Downing Eric
• Pubblicazione: Tübingen : , : Max Niemeyer, , 1993
• Edizione: Reprint 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.923
• Soggetto topico: Persona (Literature); First person narrative
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-244).
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Artificial I's
• ISBN: 3-11-092596-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809889403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; ; Bd. 127.