Double exposures repetition and realism in nineteenth-century German fiction /
| Main Author: | Downing, Eric. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2000.
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| Physical Description: |
ix, 338 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Theoretical introduction: repetition and realism in narratology, critical theory, and psychoanalysis
- Real and recurrent problems: Stifter's preface to Many-colored stones (Bunte steine)
- Double visions: chiastic mimesis and the politics of realism in Stifter's The mountain forest (Der hochwald)
- Double takes: genre and gender in Keller's twice-told tales, the Seven legends (Sieben legenden)
- Second wives, second lives: The "Ligeia impulse" in Theodor Storm's Viola tricolor
- Double-dealings: trading places in Meyer's The marriage of the monk (Die hochzeit des Mönchs)
- Secondhand news: boredom and a motive for murder in Wilhelm Raabe's Fatso (Stopfkuchen)
- (In) conclusion: second thoughts.