Reading riddles
Subtitle: rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud
By: Brian Tucker Lewisburg.
Series: New studies in the age of Goethe
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewisburg, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838757710
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund, -- 1856-1939; German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Riddles in literature; Symbolism in literature; Romanticism -- Germany
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I; title: Riddle and obscurity in early romanticism; title: From irritant to ideal: the transvaluation of riddle; title: The closed circle of criticism; title: Alethic aesthetics: Hegel's riddle of the symbol; title: Wordplay and identity in Tieck's early prose; title: Pt. II; title: Reading the psyche: the human riddle; title: The inaugural gesture of psychoanalysis; title: The joke and its other: toward a Freudian concept of riddle; title: The riddle as Freud's textual model; title: Trauma and the other Oedipus complex.