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Erotics Of War In German Romancb
Patricia Anne Simpson
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Hardback. Num Pages: 293 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594.
In The Erotics of War in German Romanticism, Patricia Anne Simpson explores the ways early nineteenth-century German philosophers, poets, and artists represent war and erotic desire. The author argues that gender is connected to a larger debate about the construction of the self in relation to a community at a time that this definition is under revision. She analyzes the culture of war as it shapes the bonds of fraternal, familial, and eventually national identity. Simpson defines the "erotics" of war as discursive attempts to assert the priority of ethical identity and citizenship over individualized desire. The seemingly ancillary problem ... Read more
In The Erotics of War in German Romanticism, Patricia Anne Simpson explores the ways early nineteenth-century German philosophers, poets, and artists represent war and erotic desire. The author argues that gender is connected to a larger debate about the construction of the self in relation to a community at a time that this definition is under revision. She analyzes the culture of war as it shapes the bonds of fraternal, familial, and eventually national identity. Simpson defines the "erotics" of war as discursive attempts to assert the priority of ethical identity and citizenship over individualized desire. The seemingly ancillary problem ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482676
SKU
V9781611482676
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About Patricia Anne Simpson
Patricia Anne Simpson is assistant professor of German at Montana State University, Bozeman.
Reviews for Erotics Of War In German Romancb
"ein wichtiger Beitrag sowohl zur Romantikforschung als auch ze den Gender Studies."
Marcel Rotter, Monatshefte, 100.3, 2008
University Of Mary Washington
Marcel Rotter, Monatshefte, 100.3, 2008
University Of Mary Washington