"I/You" focuses on representations of self and other in the philosophical fragments and prose of Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, and Dorothea Veit-Schlegel. Dr. Strand traces connections between their writings on otherness and Jacques Lacan's poststructuralist, psychoanalytic theories. Early Romantic notions of women and the Orient are analyzed. Luce Irigaray's feminist critiques of Western thought inform the discussions on early Romantic writings on gender. The connections between philosophy and literature are emphasized.

This book is the first comprehensive study of Gottfried Benn s poetry to appear in English. It covers the entirety of Benn s verse, from his early Morgue cycle (1912) and Expressionist poems through to the -anthropological- poetry of his middle period to the -postmodern- Phase II work after the Second World War. Against the background of the poet s theoretical writings, this study, drawing upon the classic texts of Benn scholarship, analyzes in detail the major themes of his verse and its distinctive idiom. In particular, this work focuses on Gottfried Benn s extended process of...