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Author Pizer, John David, author.

Title Ego--alter ego : double and/as other in the age of German poetic realism / John Pizer

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 157 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; number 120
University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 120.
Note Reprint. Originally published in 1998.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-152) and index
Contents Gender, childhood, and alterity in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Doppelgänger thematic -- The double, the alter ego, and the ideal of aesthetic comprehensiveness in "Der poetische Realismus": Otto Ludwig -- The Oriental alter ego: C.F. Meyer's Der Heilige -- Duplication, fungibility, dialectics, and the "epic naiveté" of Gottfried Keller's Martin Salander -- Guilt, memory, and the motif of the double in Theodor Storm's Aquis submersus and Ein Doppelgänger -- The alter ego as narration's motive force: Wilhelm Raabe
Summary 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 Doppelgänger 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-Hülshoff, Otto Ludwig, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, and Wilhelm Raabe.
Subject German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
Doubles in literature.
Split self in literature.
Roman allemand -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Doubles dans la littérature.
Moi divisé dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
Doubles in literature
German fiction
Realism in literature
Split self in literature
Alter Ego
Deutsch
Doppelgänger
Literatur
Realismus
Dubbelgangers.
Letterkunde.
Duits.
Deutsch.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Pizer, John David. Ego--alter ego. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020] 9780807865828
ISBN 9781469656533 (electronic bk.)
1469656531 (electronic bk.)
9780807865828 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000067501866

 
    
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