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<html> <head><meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head> <body> <P>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.</P> </body> </html>
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- Author
- Downing, Eric
- Publisher
- Max Niemeyer Verlag
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110925968
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities