The self as muse :: narcissism and creativity in the German imagination, 1750-1830 /

While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism - the creation of an ideal image of the self and the vain attempt to merge with it - has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by exa...

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Weitere Verfasser: Mathäs, Alexander, 1951-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
Schriftenreihe:Transits (Bucknell University)
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Zusammenfassung:While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism - the creation of an ideal image of the self and the vain attempt to merge with it - has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature. Narcissism provided an impetus for poetic production when writers expressed what they perceived as the inner workings of their soul. By showing na.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vii, 222 p.).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781611480337
1611480337
1299822037
9781299822030