| Artificial I's Reprint 2013 Edition Contributor(s): Downing, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 3484181273 ISBN-13: 9783484181274 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $146.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 809.923 |
| LCCN: 93223219 |
| Series: Studien Zur Deutschen Literatur |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.17 lbs) 249 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |