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The Waiting Water : Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism / Alexander Sorenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorenson, Alexander, 1988- author.
- Series:
- Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Water in literature.
- Drowning victims in literature.
- Order in literature.
- Law in literature.
- Sacrifice in literature.
- Realism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
- 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 law 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501777127
- 1501777122
- 9781501777110
- 1501777114
- OCLC:
- 1425246858
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