Double exposures
Subtitle: repetition and realism in nineteenth-century German fiction
By: Eric Downing.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: German fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Realism in literature; Repetition in literature
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-329) and index.