Table of Contents

Part One: Paradigms of Narcissism; 1. Introduction: Narcissus' Paradox; 2. Reading Freud's ""On Narcissism""; Part Two: Avant-Garde Women; 3. A ""Body"" of Writing: The Voice of Henriette Hardenberg; 4. Between Birth and Death: The Image of the Other in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood; 5. The Violence of Merging: Unica Zurn's Writing (on) the Body; Epilogue; 6. Reconsidering ""Subjectivity"".

About the Author

Caroline Rupprecht teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College. She is the translator of Dark Spring by Unica Zurn (Exact Change, 2000).