TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downing,Eric
TI  - Artificial I's: The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann 
T2  - Studien zur deutschen Literatur ,
SN  - 9783484181274
AV  - PN218 .D69 1993
U1  - 809/.923 22
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Tübingen : 
PB  - Max Niemeyer Verlag, 
KW  - First person narrative
KW  - Persona (Literature)
KW  - Ich
KW  - Kierkegaard, Søren: Forførerens dagbog
KW  - Mann, Thomas: Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
KW  - Ovidius Naso, Publius: Ars amatoria
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1: Ovid and the Ars Amatoria --; Chapter 2: Kierkegaard and the »Diary of the Seducer« --; Chapter 3: Thomas Mann and the early Felix Krull --; Chapter 4: Thomas Mann and the late Felix Krull --; Conclusion --; Bibliography; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925968
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110925968
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ER  -