Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I: Ovid and the Ars Amatoria
  • I. The Problem
  • II. The didactic imitation
  • III. The elegiac imitation
  • IV. Book I and the nullus pulvis principle
  • V. Book II and the servitium artis
  • VI. Book III and the anti-Pygmalion principle
  • Chapter 2: Kierkegaard and the "Diary of the Seducer"
  • I. Kierkegaard and the Ars Amatoria
  • II. Literary form and personal identity
  • III. Johannes' life as literature
  • IV. The dialectic of self-fashioning
  • V. Cordelia and the anti-Pygmalion principle
  • Chapter 3: Thomas Mann and the early Felix Krull
  • I. Manolescu in the mirror
  • II. Inheritance and imitation: Goethe in Felix Krull
  • III. Interlude: the new and novel play between
  • IV. Felix's retrospective life as literature
  • V. Felix's dialectic of self-fashioning
  • VI. Conscription
  • Chapter 4: Thomas Mann and the late Felix Krull
  • I. "Wiederkehr"
  • II. "Das zitathafte Leben"
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography