Crafting flesh, crafting the self : violence and identity in early nineteenth-century German literature / John B. Lyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyon, John B., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Wounds and injuries in literature.

Physical Description:

280 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press, [2006]

Contents:

The divided self: "We think of nothing excellent without thinking of its distorted opposite": Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion

Trauma and the self: "To find a home only in the deep scars of my wounds": Clemens Brentano's Godwi

The self and systems of power: "To recognize the culprit by his wound": Heinrich von Kleist's The broken pitcher

Violence and the tenacity of the self: "I am something, that's the misery of it!": Georg Büchner's Danton's death.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271) and index.

ISBN:

083875631X

OCLC:

61881163

Publisher Number:

9780838756317