{"product_id":"artificial-is-9783484181274","title":"Artificial I's","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eric Downing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study explores three works in which the protagonist undertakes to fashion a literary artwork out of himself: Ovid's  Ars Amatoria , Kierkegaard's  Diary of the Seducer , and Thomas Mann's  Felix Krull . For each work, particular attention is paid to the self-conscious interplay between the author's project of book-making and the character's project of self-making, as well as to the effect of changing notions of self-identity on the protagonist's attempt at life as literature. For  Felix Krull , this includes a sustained analysis of Mann's incorporation and problematization of various Nietzschean models of aesthestics, reality, and self-identity. In Ovid and Kierkegaard, this study also considers a related project, the attempt to fashion a literary artwork out of another, namely out of a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47813652676759,"sku":"9783484181274","price":12702.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783484181274.webp?v=1778337464","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/artificial-is-9783484181274","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}