E.T.A. Hoffmanns Märchenschaffen : Kaleidoskop der Verfremdung in seinen sieben Märchen /
This book provides a critical study of all seven of Hoffmann's "Kunstmärchen". Vitt-Maucher's detailed individual analyses focus on Hoffmann's use of structural, stylistic, and linguistic devices to create poetic deviations from the norms of reality. These deviations are div...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | German |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1989.
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| Series: | University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ;
no. 108. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book provides a critical study of all seven of Hoffmann's "Kunstmärchen". Vitt-Maucher's detailed individual analyses focus on Hoffmann's use of structural, stylistic, and linguistic devices to create poetic deviations from the norms of reality. These deviations are diverse: distortions of language and time; altered dimensions of reality, persons, and objects; transformations and reversals of 'normal' conditions or conventions. They underlie Hoffmann's often humorous or grotesque world of fairy tale 'magic' and convey to the reader the poet's intent. In the course of his fairy tale production (1814-1821), Hoffmann's use of language, imagery, and structure becomes increasingly distorted and alienated from everyday reality. Similarly, his employment of humor develops from early sociocritical, ironic, and parodistic intent to more autonomous and clearly less referential forms of 'absolute humor.' |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469658575 1469658577 9781469658568 1469658569 |