- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought
- Uniform Title
- Waiting water (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Waiting water (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data 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.
- LCCN
- 2023054119
- OCLC
- ssj0003221900
- Author
Sorenson, Alexander, 1988-
- Title
The waiting water [electronic resource] : order, sacrifice, and submergence in German realism / Alexander Sorenson.
- Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024.
- Series
Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Sorenson, Alexander, 1988- Waiting water Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501777097 (DLC) 2023054118