Ego--alter ego : double and/as other in the age of German poetic realism / John Pizer.

Author/creator Pizer, John David
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Descriptionxi, 157 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesUniversity of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 120
University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures no. 120. ^A30807
Contents Gender, childhood, and alterity in Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Doppelgänger thematic -- The double, the alter ego, and the ideal of aesthetic comprehensiveness in "Der poetische Realismus": Otto Ludwig -- The Oriental alter ego: C.F. Meyer's Der Heilige -- Duplication, fungibility, dialectics, and the "epic naiveté" of Gottfried Keller's Martin Salander -- Guilt, memory, and the motif of the double in Theodor Storm's Aquis submersus and Ein Doppelgänger -- The alter ego as narration's motive force: Wilhelm Raabe.
Local noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA STUDIES IN THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER PD25 .N6.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-152) and index.
LCCN 97030010
ISBN0807881201 (alk. paper)