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Artificial I's : The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann / Eric Downing.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; 127Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, [2013]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783484181274
  • 9783110925968
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.923 22
LOC classification:
  • PN218 .D69 1993
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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