Reading riddles : rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / Brian Tucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker, Brian, 1976-

Series:

New studies in the age of Goethe.

New studies in the age of Goethe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

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

Riddles in literature.

Symbolism in literature.

Romanticism--Germany.

Romanticism.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, N.Y. : Bucknell University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

979-82-16-35643-1

1-283-16354-3

9786613163547

1-61148-029-9

OCLC:

741492731