"Downing's highly original, thorough, and rewarding book is certain to emerge as an indispensable critical reference-point for scholars and students in the area 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
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"Downing's highly original, thorough, and rewarding book is certain to emerge as an indispensable critical reference-point for scholars and students in the area 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
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New. 0804736782. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED--352 pages--TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 Theoretical Introduction: Repetition and Realism in Narratology, Critical Theory, and Psychoanalysis 1 * 2 Real and Recurrent Problems: Stifter's Preface to Many-colored Stones (Bunte Steine) 24 * 3 Double Visions: Chiastic Mimesis and the Politics of Realism in Stifter's The Mountain Forest (Der Hochwald) 41 * 4 Double Takes: Genre and Gender in Keller's Twice-Told Tales, the Seven Legends (Sieben Legenden) 91 * 5 Second Wives, Second Lives: The "Ligeia Impulse" in Theodor Storm's Viola tricolor 129 * 6 Double-Dealings: Trading Places in Meyer's The Marriage o the Monk (Die Hochzeit des Monchs) 170 * 7 Secondhand News: Boredom and a Motive for Murder in Wilhelm Raabe's Fatso (Stopfkuchen) 216 * 8 (In) Conclusion: Second Thoughts 260 * Notes 267 * Works Cited 321 * Index 331. --DESCRIPTION: --Double Exposures aims not only to focus attention on competing meanings of realism and mimesis in nineteenth-century German narrative fiction, but also to supply a quite different account of how realism's typically submerged structures allow readers to explore some of the basic phenomena and contradictions of their extra-literary, social existence. It challenges the currently dominant critical perspective on German poetic realism (and on literary realism in general), which considers this seemingly transparent mode of representation a deeply ideological and self-deceiving form of cultural discourse that reiterates, and so reinforces, powerful social constraints already at work in the extra-literary sphere. --with a bonus offer--
