Crafting flesh, crafting the self
Subtitle: violence and identity in early nineteenth-century German literature
By: John B. Lyon.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lewisburg [PA.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838756317
Subjects: German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Wounds and injuries in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The divided self: "We think of nothing excellent without thinking of its distorted opposite": Friedrich Holderlin's Hyperion; value: Trauma and the self: "To find a home only in the deep scar of my wounds": Clemens Brentano's Godwi; value: The self and systems of power: "To recognize the culprit by his wound": Heinrich von Kleist's The broken pitcher; value: Violence and the tenacity of the self: "I am something, that's the misery of it!": Georg Buchner's Danton's death.