Reading riddles [electronic resource] : rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / Brian Tucker.
Series: New studies in the age of GoethePublication details: Lewisburg, N.Y. : Bucknell University Press, c2011.Description: 198 pISBN:- 9780838757710 (alk. paper)
- 9781611480283
- 9781611480290 (e-book)
- 830.9/145 22
- PT361 .T83 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I -- Riddle and obscurity in early romanticism -- From irritant to ideal: the transvaluation of riddle -- The closed circle of criticism -- Alethic aesthetics: Hegel's riddle of the symbol -- Wordplay and identity in Tieck's early prose -- Pt. II -- Reading the psyche: the human riddle -- The inaugural gesture of psychoanalysis -- The joke and its other: toward a Freudian concept of riddle -- The riddle as Freud's textual model -- Trauma and the other Oedipus complex.
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