Artificial I''s : The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann
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by
Eric Downing
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studien Zur Deutschen Literatur
ISBN-10
3484181273
ISBN-13
9783484181274
Edition
Reprint 2013
Publisher
De Gruyter
Imprint
De Gruyter
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 15th, 1993
Print length
249 Pages
Weight
345 grams
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismLiterature: history and criticism
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The series Studien zur deutschen Literatur (Studies in German Literature) presents outstanding analyses of German-speaking literature from the early modern period to the present day. It particularly embraces comparative, cultural and historical-epistemological questions and serves as a tradition-steeped forum for innovative literary research.
This study explores three works in which the protagonist undertakes to fashion a literary artwork out of himself: Ovid''s Ars Amatoria, Kierkegaard''s Diary of the Seducer, and Thomas Mann''s Felix Krull. For each work, particular attention is paid to the self-conscious interplay between the author''s project of book-making and the character''s project of self-making, as well as to the effect of changing notions of self-identity on the protagonist''s attempt at life as literature. For Felix Krull, this includes a sustained analysis of Mann''s incorporation and problematization of various Nietzschean models of aesthestics, reality, and self-identity. In Ovid and Kierkegaard, this study also considers a related project, the attempt to fashion a literary artwork out of another, namely out of a woman.
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