Ego-Alter Ego : Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism Paperback / softback
by John Pizer
Part of the University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature series
Paperback / softback
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German Poetic Realists drew on the Romantic motif of the Double in a manner consistent with the central dictum of Poetic Realism as articulated by its chief theorists, Julian Schmidt and Otto Ludwig.
Schmidt and Ludwig argued that contemporary authors should, above all, strive for psychological and aesthetic totality in their narrative representations, turning away from the Romantic fantastic but also avoiding the fragmentary approach to the portrayal of everyday life that Ludwig found in early Naturalism.
The 'poetic' presentation of reality adheres to quotidian life but strives to show it in all its many dimensions.
While Romantic Doppelganger are often preternatural figures, the Poetic Realists configure egos and their narrative Others ('alter egos,' who are also sometimes physical Doubles) to portray characters in their psychological comprehensiveness. After offering an overview of the Romantic Double motif and its connections to the theory of Poetic Realism, John Pizer analyzes the work of Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, Otto Ludwig, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, and Wilhelm Raabe.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2020
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- ISBN:9780807865828
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780807865828
