E T A Hoffmanns Other World

Author : Kenneth Negus
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512804800
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E. T. A. Hoffmann's Other World written by Kenneth Negus and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the imaginary universe of Germany's most famous author of fantasy, Kenneth Negus attempts to establish the coherency and fathom the depth of the "other world" manifested in Hoffmann's many tales. Proceeding mainly from Der Goldene Topf, Hoffmann's most fully developed mystical work, Negus shows how the figures, themes, and motifs Hoffmann established permeate his tales, forming a basic overall structure that embodies creation, destruction, and the interaction of the two extremes in a mythology that is a fantastic distillation of the real world with which it is often in conflict. This close and careful scrutiny of the work of E. T. A. Hoffmann should be of major interest to all teachers and students of German and Comparative Literature.

Author : Kenneth Negus
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E.T.A. Hoffmann's other world written by Kenneth Negus and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0199552479
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Pot and Other Tales written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings at large in an ostentatiously everyday world. They include The Golden Pot, recognized as Hoffmann's masterpiece by himself and posterity; its spine-chilling companion tale, The Sandman, which Offenbach drew on for his opera Tales of Hoffmann, and which Freud examines in his essay `The Uncanny'; two longer and more elaborate fantasies, set respectively in Germany and Italy; and the late story, My Cousin's Corner Window, which shows the powers of the imagination being applied to everyday urban life, and marks a transition in European literature generally from Romanticism to Realism. Ritchie Robertson's detailed introduction places the stories in their intellectual and historical context and explores their compelling narrative complexities.

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 : 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 : Victoria Dutchman-Smith
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1906540233
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E.T.A. Hoffmann and Alcohol written by Victoria Dutchman-Smith and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as author's thesis (Ph.D.--Trinity College, Cambridge).

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 : Francien Markx
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309578
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera written by Francien Markx and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera, Francien Markx investigates Hoffmann’s writings on opera, discovering in them a number of challenges to traditional narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search for a national opera, and Hoffmann’s biography.

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.