Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism in Nineteenth-Century German Fiction

Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism in Nineteenth-Century German Fiction
ISBN-10
0804736782
ISBN-13
9780804736787
Series
Double Exposures
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Author
Eric Downing

Description

Downing s highly original, thorough, and rewarding book is certain to emerge as an indispensable critical reference-point for scholars and students in the areas of narrative theory, problems of realism, and 19th-century German prose. . . . A nearly ideal combination of intellectual scope, erudition, and originality. Thomas Pfau, Duke University To write an engaging and entertaining study of German or poetic realism that offers insightful and differentiated readings of the novellas of Stifter, Storm, Keller, C.F. Meyer, and Raabe through the lenses focused on repetition of narratology, Critical Theory, and psychoanalysis and, to a leser extent gender studies, is without a doubt a daunting endeavor. This study, with its keen analysis of the doubling within German realist texts, is equal to the task. . . . While this book is written to engage and challenge scholars of realism, the clarity of Downing s prose makes the textual twists and turns, and thus the study as a whole, equally accessible to non-specialists. German Studies Review"

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