| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 222 pages) : illustrations. |
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Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Narcissism and the self: an introduction / Alexander Mathäs -- Part I: Narcissism and the senses. Narcissism and the sublime / Alexander Mathäs; -- Narcissism, the self, and empathy: the paradox that created modern literature / Fritz Breithaupt -- Part II: Narcissism and morality. Self-reflection and knowledge of self in Hamann's early philosophical and aesthetic writings / F. Corey Roberts; Narcissistic investments and transformations in Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel's Lebenslaufe nach aufsteigender Linie and Über die Ehe / Ann Schmiesing; "Some day my prince will come": Fürstenspiegel and the bourgeois writer / Gail K. Hart -- Part III: Over and against Freud. Werther's sentimental narcissism: consciousness, communication, and the origin of the modern psyche / Edgar Landgraf; -- "I suffered and I loved": narcissism and abject desire in Goethe's "Confessions of a beautiful soul" / Susan Gustafson -- Part IV: Reading and writing narcissism. Textual narcissism in Kleist's "Über das Marionettentheater" / Richard Block; That Specter in my name: writing and its mirror effects in Hoffmann and Poe / Martin Klebes. |
| Summary |
While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism - the creation of an ideal image of the self and the vain attempt to merge with it - has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature. Narcissism provided an impetus for poetic production when writers expressed what they perceived as the inner workings of their soul. By showing na. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Narcissism in literature.
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Self in literature.
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Subjectivity in literature.
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Narcissism -- Germany -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Mathäs, Alexander, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Self as muse 9780838757765 (DLC) 2010020698 (OCoLC)627700975 |
| ISBN |
9781611480337 (electronic bk.) |
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1611480337 (electronic bk.) |
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1299822037 (ebk) |
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9781299822030 (ebk) |
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9780838757765 |
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0838757766 |
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1611480329 |
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9781611480320 |
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