The waiting water : order, sacrifice, and submergence in German realism /

"This work is a study of water imagery, drowning motifs, and their intersection with the concepts of law and sacrifice in nineteenth-century German literature, culture, and thought."--

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Hlavní autor: Sorenson, Alexander, 1988- (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2024.
Edice:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/jj.8543469
Obsah:
  • Introduction: Between the surface and the depths
  • Water and stone: The end of life and sacrifice in Goethe's Elective affinities and Ebner-Eschenbach's Beyond atonement
  • The wide sea of light: Hidden order and works of love in Stifter's early writing
  • Flumen publicum: The imitation of right and the recognition of rite in Keller's A village Romeo and Juliet
  • A faint wake: Atonement and afterward in Storm's late works
  • Epilogue: Ophelia and the boatman.