Von Lessings Stil zu Nietzsches Ich Literarisches Selbstlob in Polemik und Autobiografik

What is it about?

Although the character of the orator must be convinced of itself, in rhetoric, explicit self-praise is scandalous. This tension is typical for literary genres which do not distinguish between the speaker's authority and the author's name. By analysing Lessing's polemical and Nietzsche's autobiographical writing, I discuss historically as well as systematically the transition from metonymic to emphatic self-praise.

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