The Self as muse

Titel: The Self as muse : narcissism and creativity in the German imagination 1750-1830 / ed. by Alexander Mathäs
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Veröffentlicht: Lewisburg : Bucknell Univ. Press, 2011
Umfang: VII, 222 S. : Ill. ; 24x16x2 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781611480320 ; 1611480329 ; 9780838757765 ; 0838757766
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  • Acknowledgments
  • p. vii
  • Narcissism and the Self: An Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • Narcissism and the Senses
  • Narcissism and the Sublime
  • p. 19
  • Narcissism, the Self, and Empathy: The Paradox that Created Modern Literature
  • p. 39
  • Part II
  • Narcissism and Morality
  • Self-Reflection and Knowledge of Self in Hamann's Early Philosophical and Aesthetic Writings
  • p. 61
  • Narcissistic Investments and Transformations in Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel's Lebensläufe nach aufsteigender Linie and Über die Ehe
  • p. 85
  • ôSome Day My Prince Will Comeö: Fürstenspiegel and the Bourgeois Writer
  • p. 109
  • Part III
  • Over and Against Freud
  • Werthers Sentimental Narcissism: Consciousness, Communication, and the Origin of the Modern Psyche
  • p. 127
  • ôI suffered and I lovedö: Narcissism and Abject Desire in Goethe's ôConfessions of a Beautiful Soulö
  • p. 151
  • Part IV
  • Reading and Writing Narcissism
  • Textual Narcissism in Kleist's ôÜber das Marionettentheaterö
  • p. 171
  • That Specter in My Name: Writing and Its Mirror Effects in Hoffmann and Poe
  • p. 195
  • Notes on Contributors
  • p. 217
  • Index
  • p. 219