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Author Vitt-Maucher, Gisela

Title E.T.A. Hoffmanns Märchenschaffen : Kaleidoskop der Verfremdung in seinen sieben Märchen / Gisela Vitt-Maucher
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : illustrations
Series University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 108
University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 108.
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.'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index
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Subject Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Hoffmann Ernst T. A. -- Kunstmärchen -- Verfremdung
Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822 fast
Subject Fairy tales -- Germany -- History and criticism
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Fairy tales
Sprookjes.
Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469658575
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9781469658568
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