Anselmus as Amanuensis
The Motif of Copying in Hoffmann's Der goldne Topf
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10499011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Loisa Nygaard (University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author), L C NYGAARD (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 79-104 |
| Publication date | 1983-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Seminar A Journal of Germanic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1939 • E-ISSN: 1911-026X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/sem.v19.2.79 |
| OpenAlex | W2077270989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The last twenty or thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in E.T.A. Hoffmann. Contemporary readers have been pleased to discover in his works an outlook in many respects similar to their own. Hoffmann's interest in the inner dynamics of the human psyche, his awareness of the multiple facets of reality, his frequent concern with themes of alienation, disintegration, and madness, his astonishing narrative sophistication, all seem eminently modern. There remains a strain in his writings, however, which often leaves present-day readers at a loss. In many of his fairy tales, most notably in his masterpiece Der goldne Topf, Hoffmann offers a utopian vision of reality which must have struck a sympathetic chord among his Romantic contemporaries, but which more skeptical modern readers usually find difficult to swallow. Critical approaches to dealing with this aspect of his work vary. Some interpreters accept Hoffmann's portrayal of a mythic world where all of nature is sentient, alive, and in harmony with itself at face value, and on its own terms. 1Others acknowledge the utopian vision which underlies works such as Der goldne Topf, but criticize the view of reality which it implies as escapist in nature, and as embodying a species of `Weltflucht.' 2 Still others, in an effort to assimilate Hoff
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Computational biology · Copying · Motif (music · Genetics · German Literature and Culture Studies · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 1994 - 2020 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |