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Artificial I's - The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann

English · Hardback

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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.

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Authors Eric Downing
Publisher Niemeyer, Tübingen
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.1993
 
EAN 9783484181274
ISBN 978-3-484-18127-4
No. of pages 244
Dimensions 155 mm x 21 mm x 230 mm
Weight 509 g
Series Studien zur deutschen Literatur
Studien zur deutschen Literatur
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Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies

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