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The Doppelganger

By Andrew Webber

The Doppelganger

By Andrew Webber

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Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkas (1796), the concept of the Doppelganger has had a significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its hey-day in the Romantic period, through its more marginalbut nonetheless significant - manifestations in post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siecle and transfer to the silent screen. The book features an introduction to the various practices and theories of the Doppelganger, with particular reference to psychoanalysis, followed by chapters on Jean Paul, Hoffmann, Kleist, Poetic Realism (Droste-Hulshoff, Keller, Storm) and Modernism (Kafka, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Meyrink, Werfel). Focusing in particular on the effects of the double in the fields of vision and language, this study shows that this often underestimated figure may provide a model for the epistemological, aesthetic and psychosexual structures of the texts it visits and revisits.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
392
Release Date:
1996-07-18
Publication Date:
1996-06-27
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198159048
ISBN13:
9780198159049
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
683 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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