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

By Eric Downing

Book information

Publisher
Max Niemeyer Verlag
Year
1993
ISBN
9783110925968, 9783484181274
DOI
10.1515/9783110925968
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7172774 bytes)
Series
Studien zur deutschen Literatur; 127
Edition
Reprint 2013
Pages
249\252
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-23 18:38:29

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.

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