Authors: Andrew J. Webber
ISBN-13: 9780198159049, ISBN-10: 0198159048
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: July 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Churchill College, Cambridge
Ever since its literary coinage in Jean Paul's novel, Siebenkä (1796), the concept of Doppelgänger has had significant influence upon representations of the self in German literature. This study charts the development of the double from its origins in the Romantic period, through its more marginal, but nonetheless significant, manifestations in the post-Romantic culture, to its revival at the fin-de-siècle and transfer to the silent screen.
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1 | Theories and Practices of the Doppelganger | 1 |
2 | Life, Death, and Birth of the Doppelganger in Jean Paul | 56 |
3 | Hoffmann's Chronic Dualisms | 113 |
4 | Cases of Double Trouble in Kleist | 195 |
5 | Double Agencies in the Novelle of Poetic Realism | 232 |
6 | Gothic Revivals: The Doppelganger in the Age of Modernism | 317 |
Bibliography | 358 | |
Index | 371 |