Body dialectics in the age of Goethe / / edited by Marianne Henn and Holger A. Pausch.

In opposition to an essentialist conceptualization, the social construct of the human body in literature can be analyzed and described by means of effective methodologies that are based on Discourse Theory, Theory of Cultural Transmission and Ecology, System Theory, and Media Theory. In this perspec...

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Superior document:Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, Bd. 55
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
French
German
Series:Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 55.
Physical Description:1 online resource (437 pages) :; illustrations.
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Other title:Preliminary Material /
Introduction: Genealogy and Construction of Body Identity in the Age of Goethe /
Sculptured Soldiers and the Beauty of Discipline: Herder, Foucault and Masculinity /
Designing the Self: Fashion and the Body /
Posing for Posterity: The Representations and Portrayals of Henriette Herz as “Beautiful Jewess” /
Beobachtungen zur Genealogie der Körperfeindlichkeit als Erbmangel und Notwendigkeit im kulturellen Gedächtnis der Aufklärung /
Apum Rex/Regina: Goethes Bienenlehre als Schlüssel zu Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren /
Reproductive Machines in E. T. A. Hoffmann /
“Das Mark aus meinem Rückgrat trank / Ihr Mund mit wildem Saugen”: le corps vampirique chez Heinrich Heine ou l’échange symbolique de l’amour et de la mort /
“... was verliert das Vaterland durch ein Weib?” Krieg, Körperpolitik und Gender in Wilhelmine von Gersdorfs Drama Die Horatier und Curiatier (1790) /
Winckelmann’s Impact on Drama Prior to Goethe’s Iphigenie: Joseph Bernard Pelzel’s Das gerächte Troja /
“und jeder Tag nimmt etwas von dem lodernden Feuer hinweg”. Körperlichkeit und Sexualität in Sophie von La Roches Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim /
Colonising the German Body: Self and Other in Sturm und Drang Drama /
Atemübungen: Geist und Körper in der Lyrik des 18. Jahrhunderts /
Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften and the Problem of Feminine Orality /
“Welle” und “Locke”. Goethes déréaliser im West-östlichen Divan /
“Die allmähliche Verfertigung des Geschlechts beim Anziehen” Epistemologies of the Body in Kleist’s Die Familie Schroffenstein /
Reading and Writing the Architecture of the Body in Kleist’s Penthesilea /
Kleist, Büchner, Grillparzer: Three Dramatists’ Archetypal Representations of the Body /
Bodily Grace and Consciousness: from the Enlightenment to Romanticism /
Die Horatier und Curiatier, eine dramatische Skizze aus der römischen Geschichte /
Summary:In opposition to an essentialist conceptualization, the social construct of the human body in literature can be analyzed and described by means of effective methodologies that are based on Discourse Theory, Theory of Cultural Transmission and Ecology, System Theory, and Media Theory. In this perspective, the body is perceived as a complex arrangement of substantiation, substitution, and omission depending on demands, expectations, and prohibitions of the dominant discourse network. The term Body-Dialectics stands for the attempt to decipher – and for a moment freeze – the web of such discursive arrangements that constitute the fictitious notion of the body in the framework of a specific historic environment, here in the Age of Goethe.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9004334351
ISSN:0304-6257 ;
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Marianne Henn and Holger A. Pausch.