Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series
Print version: Sorenson, Alexander, 1988- Waiting Water : Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German Realism. First edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2024 285 pages Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series ISBN 9781501777097
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.