"Double Exposures" aims not only to focus attention on competing
meanings of realism and mimesis in nineteenth-century German
narrative fiction, but also to supply a quite different account of
how realism's typically submerged structures allow readers to
explore some of the basic phenomena and contradictions of their
extra-literary, social existence. It challenges the currently
dominant critical perspective on German poetic realism (and on
literary realism in general), which considers this seemingly
transparent mode of representation a deeply ideological and
self-deceiving form of cultural discourse that reiterates, and so
reinforces, powerful social constraints already at work in the
extra-literary sphere.
By rethinking the landmark theories of Jacobson and Barthes,
Horkheimer and Adorno, and Freud and Lacan--especially their
attention to repetition--to point out that any instance of formal
repetition produces effects that cannot be contained, the author
articulates how the supposedly marginal moments of faltering to
both its own and its other cultural discourses are, in fact,
intrinsic effects of poetic realism's double, conflictual nature.
Through a series of close readings of several realist novellas by
Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, C. F. Meyer, and
Wilhelm Raabe, the book explores a number of realism's array of
"redundant" motifs having to do with nature, gender, family, class,
and aesthetics. It demonstrates that the realist project was always
about more than simply reinforcing bourgeois ideology, and always
fostered a form of self-awareness and reflection inseparable from
what we value as literature.
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