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Tucker, Brian, 1976-

Reading riddles rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud / [electronic resource] : Brian Tucker. - Lewisburg, N.Y. : Bucknell University Press, c2011. - 198 p. - New studies in the age of Goethe . - New studies in the age of Goethe. .

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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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Subjects--Personal Names:
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
German literature--History and criticism.--18th century
German literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Riddles in literature.
Symbolism in literature.
Romanticism--Germany.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PT361 / .T83 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 830.9/145