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

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Downing, Eric.

Series:

Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; Bd. 127.

Studien zur deutschen Literatur, 0081-7236 ; Band 127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persona (Literature).

First person narrative.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Influence.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. Forførerens dagbog.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull.

Mann, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Max Niemeyer, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-244).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110925968

3110925966

OCLC:

922946833