Artificial I's
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Artificial I's

The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann

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Artificial I's

The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann

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Die Reihe Studien zur deutschen Literatur prĂ€sentiert herausragende Untersuchungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der FrĂŒhen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Offen besonders auch fĂŒr komparatistische, kulturwissenschaftliche und wissensgeschichtliche Fragestellungen, bietet sie ein traditionsreiches Forum fĂŒr innovative literaturwissenschaftliche Forschung.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783484181274
eBook ISBN
9783110925968
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
German Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter I: Ovid and the Ars Amatoria
  3. I. The Problem
  4. II. The didactic imitation
  5. III. The elegiac imitation
  6. IV. Book I and the nullus pulvis principle
  7. V. Book II and the servitium artis
  8. VI. Book III and the anti-Pygmalion principle
  9. Chapter 2: Kierkegaard and the »Diary of the Seducer«
  10. I. Kierkegaard and the Ars Amatoria
  11. II. Literary form and personal identity
  12. III. Johannes’ life as literature
  13. IV. The dialectic of self-fashioning
  14. V. Cordelia and the anti-Pygmalion principle
  15. Chapter 3: Thomas Mann and the early Felix Krull
  16. I. Manolescu in the mirror
  17. II. Inheritance and imitation: Goethe in Felix Krull
  18. III. Interlude: the new and novel play between
  19. IV. Felix’s retrospective life as literature
  20. V. Felix’s dialectic of self-fashioning
  21. VI. Conscription
  22. Chapter 4: Thomas Mann and the late Felix Krull
  23. I. »Wiederkehr«
  24. II. »Das zitathafte Leben«
  25. Conclusion
  26. Bibliography

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