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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library,
2024.
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| Series: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/jj.8543469 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.