Crafting flesh, crafting the self : violence and identity in early nineteenth-century German literature /
Lyon, John B.,1966-
Lewisburg [PA] : Bucknell University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index.
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.
German literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Wounds and injuries in literature.