| Description |
1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Contents |
READING RIDDLES; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations and Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Riddle and Obscurity in Early Romanticism; II. Reading the Psyche: The Human Riddle; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud explores how the riddle becomes a figure for reading and writing in early German Romanticism and how this model then enables Sigmund Freud's approach to the psyche. It traces a migration of ideas from literature to psychoanalysis and argues that the relationship between them must be situated at the methodological level. Through readings of texts by August Wilhelm, Friedrich Schlegel, G.W.F. Hegel, and Ludwig Tieck Reading Riddles documents how the Romantics expand the field of poetic signification to include obscure, distorted s |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
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| SUBJECT |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast |
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German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Riddles in literature.
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Symbolism in literature.
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Romanticism -- Germany
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German literature
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Riddles in literature
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Romanticism
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Symbolism in literature
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611480290 |
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1611480299 |
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