A study of the major novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann
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A study of the major novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 2003
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-187) and index
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Description
Analysis of the novellas of the German Romantic writer and composer, focusing on the issues of art and the artist.
The German Romantic writer and composer E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) -- perhaps best known to the English-speaking world through his Nutcracker and through Jacques Offenbach's opera Tales of Hoffmann -- struggled toconvince his predominantly bourgeois public of the merits of art and literature. Not surprisingly, many of his most important novellas are bound up with the dilemmas of art and the challenges faced by the Romantic artist, and itis these Kunstlernovellen that are the focus of this study. Birgit Roederargues that Hoffmann's artists are not simply individuals who create works of art, but rather figures through whom the author explores the predicamentof those who reject the conventional world of bourgeois reality and seek to assert the claims of the imagination in a world dominated by prosaic rationalism. Contrary to previous scholars however, Roeder demonstrates that Hoffmann's novellas clearly warn against a view of art as an autonomous aesthetic realm cut off from the world of reality. This is particularly apparent in Roeder's analysis of gender relations in Hoffmann's oeuvre -- especially the relationship between (male) artist and (female) muse -- which underlines the extent to which art, literature, and the imagination are inseparably bound up with the prevailing social reality. The novellas that are given extensive consideration are Das Fraulein von Scuderi, Der Sandmann, Die Jesuiterkirche in G., Die Fermate, Der Artushof, Don Juan, Das Sanctus, and Rat Krespel.
Birgit Roeder teaches German language and literature at the University of Reading, UK.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Hoffmann and the Romantic Dilemma
Das Fraulein von Scuderi
Der Sandmann
Die Jesuiterkirche in G.
Die Fermate
Der Artushof
Don Juan
Das Sanctus
Rat Krespel
Conclusions
Works Consulted
Index
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