UID:
edocfu_9959229247602883
Format:
1 online resource (249 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2013
ISBN:
3-11-092596-6
Series Statement:
Studien zur deutschen Literatur, Band 127
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1987.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1: Ovid and the Ars Amatoria --
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Chapter 2: Kierkegaard and the »Diary of the Seducer« --
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Chapter 3: Thomas Mann and the early Felix Krull --
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Chapter 4: Thomas Mann and the late Felix Krull --
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Conclusion --
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Bibliography
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-182132-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-484-18127-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110925968
