Realism and Reality: Studies in the German Novelle of Poetic Realism.

Abstract

The following group of studies is not in any wise intended as an "exhaustive" treatment of the German Novelle, or of the individual authors here represented.Nor does it attempt anything like a systematic account of Realism, or even a definition of it.My purpose has been simply to present analyses of certain Novellen that have impressed me as significant examples of Poetic Realism and of the art of Novelle-writing.I have accordingly limited myself to the period in which this style and this genre flowered simultaneously.This chronological delimitation has excluded both earlier important Novellen, notably Kleist's, and later ones.Even within the limits set, of course, no two writers would exactly agree in their choice of examples.It might fairly be objected that a general Zeitstil needs to be studied in various forms of literature and indeed in various de .. partments of cultural life.In reply, I should only say that the Novelle seems to me the most successful embodiment of the new realism, and in focusing a single beam of light on this one narrative type I have hoped to suggest the results of a wider but more diffuse illumination.

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