Crafting flesh, crafting the self : violence and identity in early nineteenth-century German literature / / John B. Lyon.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 280 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- The divided self: "We think of nothing excellent without thinking of its distorted opposite": Friedrich Holderlin's Hyperion
- Trauma and the self: "To find a home only in the deep scar 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 Buchner's Danton's death.