{"product_id":"recognizing-reality-jessica-c-resvick-9798899480591","title":"Recognizing Reality: German Realism and the Mediation of Presence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReveals how literary scenes of recognition stage the process of coming to know reality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply researched and thought-provoking study, Jessica C. Resvick traces nineteenth-century German realist writing's paradoxical investment in mediated accounts of the world and the direct, unfiltered experience of reality. Focusing on the motif and operation of recognition\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein its Aristotelean sense, Resvick examines self-reflexive narratives in which the authors struggle to resolve this tension between the media they choose and the immediacy they hope to create. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough close readings of key works by canonical authors such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller, and Wilhelm Raabe, Resvick demonstrates the medially influenced and historically contingent ways in which they represent reality. Each chapter focuses on a different form of recognition, reconstructing the techniques that allow these authors to generate an effect of presence. Exploring the history and poetics of knowledge exchange, \u003ci\u003eRecognizing Reality: German Realism and the Mediation of Presence \u003c\/i\u003eexpands on recent media histories of realism, examining the material bases for realist aesthetics while also investigating media's epistemological accomplishments, and astutely elaborates the role of recognition as a medium-specific tool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica C. Resvick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798899480591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jessica C. Resvick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852771111167,"sku":"9798899480591","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/recognizing-reality-jessica-c-resvick-9798899480591","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}