The self as muse narcissism and creativity in the German imagination, 1750-1830 / edited by Alexander Mathäs.
| Other author | Mathäs, Alexander, 1951- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, |
| Description | vii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 Transits (Bucknell University) ^A1093119 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010020698 |
| ISBN | 9780838757765 |
| ISBN | 0838757766 |
| ISBN | 1611480329 (cloth: alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781611480320 (cloth: alk. paper) |