TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stelzig,Eugene L.
TI  - Hermann Hesse's Fictions of the Self: Autobiography and the Confessional Imagination 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400859559
AV  - PT2617.E85 Z937 1988eb
U1  - 833/.912B 19
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Authors, German
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Autobiographical fiction, German
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Confession in literature
KW  - Self in literature
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Antinomy
KW  - Antithesis
KW  - Arthur Rimbaud
KW  - Arthur Schopenhauer
KW  - Bertolt Brecht
KW  - Bildungsroman
KW  - Confucius
KW  - Counterculture
KW  - D. H. Lawrence
KW  - Demian
KW  - Diary of a Madman (short story)
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Friedrich Nietzsche
KW  - George Eliot
KW  - German Romanticism
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Heinrich von Ofterdingen
KW  - Hermann Hesse
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Hubris
KW  - Jeremiad
KW  - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
KW  - Knulp
KW  - Letter to His Father
KW  - Literature
KW  - Manichaeism
KW  - Mark Twain
KW  - Martin Heidegger
KW  - Modernism
KW  - Moral insanity
KW  - Mutability (poem)
KW  - Narcissus and Goldmund
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Neoplatonism
KW  - Novel
KW  - Novelist
KW  - Orwellian
KW  - Parody
KW  - Peter Camenzind
KW  - Philosophical fiction
KW  - Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
KW  - Picaresque novel
KW  - Poetaster
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Politics and the English Language
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Psychomachia
KW  - Quibble (plot device)
KW  - Renunciation
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Secrecy (book)
KW  - Self-criticism
KW  - Self-image
KW  - Stefan Zweig
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Suspension of disbelief
KW  - Søren Kierkegaard
KW  - The Glass Bead Game
KW  - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
KW  - The Philosopher
KW  - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
KW  - The Third Reich (novel)
KW  - Theatrum Mundi
KW  - Tropic of Cancer (novel)
KW  - Weltschmerz
KW  - William Blake
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; I. The Confessional Imagination --; II. Life as Writing --; III. Self-Will --; IV. Autobiographical Beginnings --; V. Domestic Fictions --; Vi. Hesse's Marriage of Heaven and Hell --; VII. Ticino Legends of Saints and Sinners --; VIII. Live(D) Fantasies --; IX. Home to the Un-Becoming Self --; Epilogue: Who is he? --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor ones in relation to the intricate psychological design of his entire life history. Eugene Stelzig examines what it means to be an "autobiographical writer" by considering Hesse's fictions of the self as an exemplary instance of the relationship between life and art and between biography and autobiography. In a graceful and inviting style, he frees this major confessional writer from the confines of German culture and the status of "cult figure" of the 1960s, and situates him in the tradition of world literature and in a variety of literary, psychological, philosophical, and religious contexts.Three introductory chapters on autobiography and Hesse set the stage for a chronological study. Then follows a penetrating analysis of the balance between biographical fact and confessional fantasy in Hesse's long career, from the failed autobiography of his first literary success, Beneath the Wheel, through the protracted midlife crisis of the grotesque Steppenwolf period, to the visionary autobiography of his magisterial fictional finale, The Glass Bead Game.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400859559
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400859559
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400859559/original
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