I/You
Subtitle: Paradoxical Constructions of Self and Other in Early German Romanticism
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780820436654
Subjects: European - German; Literary Criticism; 18th century; German Literature; Germany; History and criticism; Romanticism; Self in literature
Description: I/You focuses on representations of self and other in the philosophical fragments and prose of Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, and Dorothea Veit-Schlegel. Dr. Strand traces connections between their writings on otherness and Jacques Lacan's poststructuralist, psychoanalytic theories. Early Romantic notions of women and the Orient are analyzed. Luce Irigaray's feminist critiques of Western thought inform the discussions on early Romantic writings on gender.

The connections between philosophy and literature are emphasized.