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Ego-Alter Ego by John David Pizer
Double and/as Other in the Age of German Poetic Realism
The chief theorists of poetic realism, Julian Schmidt and Otto Ludwig argued that contemporary authors should avoid romantic fantasism and aim for aesthetic totality. This book shows how the romantic double connects to this realism whilst analyzing the work of various scholars in the field.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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| Author(s) : John David Pizer | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0807881201 | ISBN-13 : 9780807881200 |
| RRP : £29.50 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages & Literatures
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 01/06/1998
Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press
Page Length : 208mm
Page Size : 229mm