Narcissism and paranoia in the age of Goethe /
Mathäs, Alexander,1951-
Newark, N.J. : University of Delaware Press,
c2008.
Aesthetic narcissism and the bourgeois self. Herder's notion of the male self ; Subjectivity and eighteenth-century semiotics ; Outline of chapters -- Self-observation and bourgeois art -- Body, mind, and soul -- Mapping the German body -- Male desire in Sturm und Drang drama -- Paranoia, gender, and the bourgeois artist -- From self-perfection to self-delusion -- A doppelganger in the family -- Narcissism and cloning.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.
German literature
Narcissism in literature.
Paranoia in literature.