Artificial I's - The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann (Hardcover, Reprint 2013)

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.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studien Zur Deutschen Literatur
Release date:	1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Eric Downing
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	249
Edition:	Reprint 2013
ISBN-13:	978-3-484-18127-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	3-484-18127-3
Barcode:	9783484181274

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