{"product_id":"the-waiting-water-order-sacrifice-and-submergence-in-german-realism-paperback-softback-9781501777103","title":"The Waiting Water; Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501777103","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Waiting Water\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOrder, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexander Sorenson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501777103\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 3 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Water \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eaddresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature—death by drowning.\u003c\/b\u003e Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it. With somber regularity, they then disappear into the depths. Alexander Sorenson explores the role that these hidden deaths in water play within a literary movement that set out precisely to reveal universal truths about human life. The poetics of submergence, he argues, revolve around two concepts fundamental to Poetic Realism—order and sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing on texts by Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Theodor Storm, along with material from earlier and later epochs, \u003ci\u003eThe Waiting Water \u003c\/i\u003eshows that the pervasive symbolism of drowning scenes in German Realism, which typically occur in zones of narrative invisibility on the social periphery, reveals the extent to which realist narrative uses the natural environment to work through deeply embedded and hidden tensions that troubled the social and moral life of the age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Between the Surface and the Depths\u003cbr\u003e 1. Water and Stone: The End of Life and Sacrifice inGoethe's Elective Affinities and Ebner-Eschenbach'sBeyond Atonement\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Wide Sea of Light: Hidden Law and Works ofLove in Stifter's Early Writing\u003cbr\u003e 3. Flumen Publicum: The Imitation of Right and theRecognition of Rite in Keller's A Village Romeo and Juliet\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Faint Wake: Atonement and Afterward in Storm'sLate Works\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Ophelia and the Boatman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608271417624,"sku":"9781501777103","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-waiting-water-order-sacrifice-and-submergence-in-german-realism-paperback-softback-9781501777103","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}