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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"E. T. A. Hoffmann"”.
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The Stakes of Mimesis: Tracing Narrative Lines in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac
… comparative close readings of texts by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac. Balzac’s early fiction, I contend, grapples with questions relating to the representational practice of mimesis through an explicit engagement with Hoffmann’s work. Hoffmann’s fiction, in turn, proves itself repeatedly …
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"The Critic as Magician: The Music Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann in the Context of the ""Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung"""
Hoffmann's insistence on these aspects in all of his narrative contributions to the AMZ reveals an agenda significantly different from what is usually attributed to this well-known advocate of instrumental music. It exemplifies Hoffmann's search for an adequate expression of his insights on opera, …
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Magical and Mysterious Resonances: Structural Principles in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Kreisler Works and Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana
… Op. 16 (1838), borrows its title from E. T. A. Hoffmann's set of essays concerning his literary alter ego, Johannes Kreisler. The character of Kreisler is most prominently featured in two of Hoffmann's works: the <em>Kreisleriana</em> essays (1814-1815) and his final novel, <em>The Life and …
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Theorie und Praxis im dramatischen Werk Rainer Lewandowskis
… about the Romantic composer and writer E. T. A. Hoffmann. Second, I will show the importance of Rainer Lewandowski's children's theater, for example his stage adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's children's story The Strange Child. Next, his musicals Me, Marlene, Mambo Mortale and Don't Panik, and …
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Wanderlust Reexamined: Analysis of Examples From the Fiction of Tieck, Novalis, Eichendorff, and Hoffmann
… relationship to the world around him. E. T. A. Hoffmann depicts in Elixiere the condition of split-personality as a means of objectifying an individual's experience of conflicting emotions. The fantastic journeys experienced by the characters in Tieck's fairytale narratives can also be viewed as …
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Constructing Vision: László Moholy-Nagy's Partiturskizze zu einer mechanischen Exzentrik, Experiments in Higher Spatial Dimensions
… Carnap, Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Wundt, E. T. A. Hoffmann, James Joyce, and many others. Through this analysis, I reveal the ambitious intention at the heart of the Exzentrik, to immerse the audience in a synaesthetic experience that expands their psychophysical consciousness using electromagnetic …
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Kontroverses Erbe und Innovation : die Novelle Die Reisebegegnung von Anna Seghers im literaturpolitischen Kontext der DDR der siebziger Jahre
… literary figures of "Nikolai Gogol", "E. T. A. Hoffmann" and "Franz Kafka" as representations of the aesthetics of realism, romanticism and modernism respectively. The use of allegory marks a significant breakaway from the method of social realism. The chapter also tries to show the …