Nancy A. Kaiser

David E. Wellbery

Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz

Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present

Defining realism as a category of literary communication, this study delineates three distinct patterns of reader experience within 19th-century German Realism. In considering the interaction of text and reader as constructing the world which a -realistic- novel is often said to reflect or describe, the author coordinates an analysis of the social systems constituted within the texts with a consideration of the narrative structure. The first pattern connects village tales by Auerbach with Freytag's Soll und Haben. A second pattern of reader experience, demonstrated in three novels by Fontane, exposes and manipulates the mechanisms of social integration. The final pattern, two works from Raabe's Braunschweig Trilogy, undermines the middle-class reality it evokes."

Patterns of Realism in Auerbach, Freytag, Fontane, and Raabe

Social Integration and Narrative Structure

Tales of an Animal Communicator - Master Teachers

LETTING GO is the extraordinary story of a woman who retires with her husband to the mountains of North Carolina to build their dream retirement home. Just as she embarks on this fabulous new chapter in her life, her husband confesses, "I never wanted any of this... ." Follow her struggle to learn from and let go of the devastating feelings of betrayal, grief, anger, fear, and loneliness that engulf her after they separate and divorce. Abandoned 600 miles from everyone she knows, her dream shattered, without a home or job, she dares to ask, "Why?" The answers lay buried deep beneath her pain. Join her as her quest for Truth reveals the most unusual teachers from within Nature and the spiritual realms, available only to those with courage to seek answers. Discover how she learns to let go and embrace her destiny.

Nancy A. Kaiser

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