E T A Hoffmann

Author : E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141914882
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Hoffmann written by E.T.A. Hoffmann and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of Hoffmann's finest short stories vividly demonstrates his intense imagination and preoccupation with the supernatural, placing him at the forefront of both surrealism and the modern horror genre. Suspense dominates tales such as Mademoiselle de Scudery, in which an apprentice goldsmith and a female novelist find themselves caught up in a series of jewel thefts and murders. In the sinister Sandman, a young man's sanity is tormented by fears about a mysterious chemist, while in The Choosing of a Bride a greedy father preys on the weaknesses of his daughter's suitors. Master of the bizarre, Hoffman creates a sinister and unsettling world combining love and madness, black humour and bewildering illusion.

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486138968
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Tales of Hoffmann written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten of Hoffmann's greatest tales, enormously popular in Europe but rarely seen in the United States: "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand Man," and 6 others.

Author : Christopher R. Clason
Publisher : Romantic Reconfigurations Stud
ISBN 13 : 178694121X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E.T.A. Hoffmann written by Christopher R. Clason and published by Romantic Reconfigurations Stud. This book was released on 2018 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume address a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann's most significant works, examining them through the lens of "transgression." His writings, perhaps more than those of any other German Romantic, portrayed the "dark side" of existence, which the following essays investigate for an Anglophone audience.

Author : Cyril Bentham Falls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Hoffmann written by Cyril Bentham Falls and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543392
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E. T. A. Hoffmann's Musical Writings written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a long-awaited opportunity to assess the thought and influence of one of the most famous of all writers on music and the musical links with his fiction. Containing the first complete appearance in English of Kreisleriana, it reveals a masterpiece of imaginative writing and whose profound humour and irony can now be fully appreciated.

Author : R. Murray Schafer
Publisher : Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E. T. A. Hoffmann and Music written by R. Murray Schafer and published by Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a man of diversified talents, an artist, composer, conductor, critic, jurist, and writer. Although he is best known for his stories, he was a music critic and composer for years before he wrote his celebrated Tales. Hoffmann has long been considered an extremely important force in the shaping of musical romanticism, yet this volume is the first adequate documentation of his influence. Because much of the primary material upon which the study is based, has not previously been available in English, the author has chosen an unusual but especially appropriate format, in which translations of Hoffmann's writings and the author's critical commentary alternate. This book not only fills a unique gap in the history of the Romantic Movement by showing the effect of Hoffmann's writings on the early phases of musical romanticism in Germany, but also presents an over-all picture of romanticism in its incipient years.

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master Flea written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a contemporary of Ludwig von Beethoven: a composer himself, a music critic, and a late-German-Romantic-movement writer of novels and numerous short stories. His incisive wit and poetic imagery allow the reader to peer into the foibles of society and the follies of human psychology. (In fact, Hoffmann’s wit may have gotten him into a bit of legal trouble, as parts of Master Flea were censored and had to be reworked when authorities disliked certain satirical criticisms of contemporary dealings of the court system.) Join gentleman bachelor Peregrine Tyss as his life as a recluse takes a twist, when he gains an epic advantage of tiny proportions. Part proto-science-fiction and part Romantic fantasy, Master Flea follows the fate of a mysterious, captivating princess at the intersection of numerous suitors, human and insect. Like a lesson from a fable or a tale of classical mythology, Hoffmann’s fairy-tale allegory shows how seeking forbidden knowledge can poison the soul, and how following the heart can heal it.

Author : E.T.A. Hoffmann
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
ISBN 13 : 6558943387
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr written by E.T.A. Hoffmann and published by Lebooks Editora. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In E.T.A. Hoffmann's extraordinary novel, Opinions of the Cat Murr , the reader embarks on a fantastic journey through the routine activities of daily life in 19th century Germany. The confident and eclectic talents of Murr, a creature inspired by Hoffmann's own beloved cat, make him a true feline of the Renaissance, while Kriesler, Hoffmann's alter ego, is a character saturated with romantic sensibility. E.T.A. Hoffmann's strange tale evokes the supernatural, the operatic, the musical, and the psychiatric in a narrative populated by characters who cross the boundaries between madness and sanity, with a style that reflects this uncertainty. The work influenced a diverse group including Gogol, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Jung, and in many ways foreshadowed Freud's ideas about the mysterious. Opinions of the Cat Murr is a classic and is part of the famous collection: 1001 BOOKS to Read Before You Die.

Author : E.T.A Hoffmann
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714547700
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King's Bride written by E.T.A Hoffmann and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon her finger whilst tending her kitchen garden, forces her into marriage with the gnome Corduanspitz. Can Anna find any way of removing the ring? Will her poet lover shake off his passive demeanour and come to her aid? And has Corduanspitz truly relinquished all ties to his gnome heritage, as he so proudly claims?Around a love story very much of its time, Hoffman arranges a narrative that brings to mind the most successful elements of contemporary magical realism and surreal comedy. Always entertaining, yet capable of a focused though subtle morality, "e;The King's Bride"e; brings disparate elements into a masterful harmony.

Author : Hilda Meldrum Brown
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133489
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E.T.A. Hoffmann and the Serapiontic Principle written by Hilda Meldrum Brown and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive investigation of Hoffmann's "Serapiontic Principle" and what it implies for his oeuvre.Critics have long sought to elucidate the multilayered texts of E. T. A. Hoffmann by applying to them a particular set of theories and ideas that Hoffmann himself subsumed under the heading of the "Serapiontic Principle." This principle, which Hoffmann expounded in his collection of tales Die Serapionsbrüder, involves a complex intersection of the artist's faculties of imagination and perception. However, Hoffmann's mode of presenting his theory presents an unusual problem: rather than the usual form of an essay or treatise, he adopts a fictional framework, complete with a set of "characters"; this in turn sets up a number of perspectives on the theory itself. This combination of literary and theoretical elements presents a severe challenge to critics, and not surprisingly there has been little agreement about what the "principle" actually entails or its wider relevance. With the principle as prime focus, this book provides detailed analysis of a broadly based selection of Hoffmann's texts, both theoretical and literary. It offers new perspectives on his narrative invention and the range of his theoretical interests, thus redefining his place at the forefront of German Romanticism. Hilda Meldrum Brown is Professor of German at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.his book provides detailed analysis of a broadly based selection of Hoffmann's texts, both theoretical and literary. It offers new perspectives on his narrative invention and the range of his theoretical interests, thus redefining his place at the forefront of German Romanticism. Hilda Meldrum Brown is Professor of German at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.his book provides detailed analysis of a broadly based selection of Hoffmann's texts, both theoretical and literary. It offers new perspectives on his narrative invention and the range of his theoretical interests, thus redefining his place at the forefront of German Romanticism. Hilda Meldrum Brown is Professor of German at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.his book provides detailed analysis of a broadly based selection of Hoffmann's texts, both theoretical and literary. It offers new perspectives on his narrative invention and the range of his theoretical interests, thus redefining his place at the forefront of German Romanticism. Hilda Meldrum Brown is Professor of German at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.