Download or read book Bending the Frame in the German Cyclical Narrative written by Vickie L. Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frame story, a series of stories presented within a narrative, has been a staple in the catalog of literary genres ever since people started to tell tales. It enables the writer to integrate a wealth of heterogeneous material and to comment on contemporary events as well. German writers of the Romantic period, such as Achim von Arnim in Der Wintergarten (1809) and E. T. A. Hoffmann in Die Serapionsbruder (1818-21), followed Goethe in his expansion of the frame and began to experiment with the genre, making the first significant changes to the structure of the frame story in several hundred years. Written early in his career, Arnim's work has never received the attention it deserves. It provides us with an early example of tendencies that became important in his later work, such as the manner in which he adapted sources from the past for the present. His frame characters try to confront the reality of the Napoleonic wars and their significance for the Germans. Unlike Arnim's Der Wintergarten Hoffmann's Serapionsbruder was written near the end of his life. In the frame conversations, Hoffmann set down some of his final commentaries on major issues in German Romanticism: madness, the problems of the artist, and extrasensory phenomena. Consequently, the frame is an important and previously neglected interpretative resource, not only for the inner stories here, but also for the major works of both Arnim and Hoffmann. Vickie L. Ziegler examines these two cyclical narratives that are representative of two traditions (Arnim of Goethe's and Hoffmann of Tieck's) and then studies the interaction between the frames and the inner stories. She demonstrates, by means of strict and detailed textualanalysis, that there are significant linkages of meaning among the frame discourses and inner narratives. Written primarily for scholars of the late eigtheenth- and nineteenth- century German literature, this learned and perceptive volume will also interest students of comparative literature and medievalism.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of German Literature written by Matthias Konzett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 3105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
Download or read book The Imperative of Reliability written by Victoria Somoff and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imperative of Reliability examines the development of nineteenth-century Russian prose and the remarkably swift emergence of the Russian novel. Victoria Somoff identifies an unprecedented situation in the production and perception of the utterance that came to define nascent novelistic fictionality both in European and Russian prose, where the utterance itself—whether an oral story or a “found” manuscript—became the object of representation within the compositional format of the frame narrative. This circumstance generated a narrative perspective from which both the events and their representation appeared as concomitant in time and space: the events did not precede their narration but rather occurred and developed along with and within the narration itself. Somoff establishes this story-discourse convergence as a major factor in enabling the transition from shorter forms of Russian prose to the full-fledged realist novel.
Download or read book A Pedagogy of Observation written by Vance Byrd and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pedagogy of Observation argues that the fascination with learning about the past and new locations in panoramic form spread far from the traditional sites of popular entertainment and amusement. Although painted panoramas captivated audiences from Hamburg to Leipzig and Berlin to Vienna, relatively few people had direct access to this invention. Instead, most Germans in the early nineteenth century encountered panoramas for the first time through the written word. The panorama experience described inthis book centers on the emergence of a new type of visual language and self-fashioning in material culture adopted by Germans at the turn of the nineteenth century, one that took cues from the pedagogy of observing and interpreting space at panorama shows. By reading about what editors, newspaper correspondents, and writers referred to as “panoramas,” curious Germans learned about a new representational medium and a new way to organize and produce knowledge about the scenes on display, even if they had never seen these marvels in person. Like an audience member standing on a panorama platform at a show, reading about panoramas transported Germans to new worlds in the imagination, while maintaining a safe distance from the actual transformations being portrayed. A Pedagogy of Observation identifies how the German bourgeois intelligentsia created literature as panoramic stages both for self-representation and as a venue for critiquing modern life. These written panoramas, so to speak, helped German readers see before their eyes industrial transformations, urban development, scientific exploration, and new possibilities for social interactions. Through the immersive act of reading, Germans entered an experimental realm that fostered critical engagement with modern life before it was experienced firsthand. Surrounded on all sides by new perspectives into the world, these readers occupied the position of the characters that they read about in panoramic literature. From this vantage point, Germans apprehended changes to their immediate environment and prepared themselves for the ones still to come.
Download or read book The Director s Prism written by Dassia N. Posner and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2017 Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award Shortlist, 2019 Prague Quadrennial Best Scenography and Design Publication Award The Director's Prism investigates how and why three of Russia's most innovative directors— Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexander Tairov, and Sergei Eisenstein—used the fantastical tales of German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann to reinvent the rules of theatrical practice. Because the rise of the director and the Russian cult of Hoffmann closely coincided, Posner argues, many characteristics we associate with avant-garde theater—subjective perspective, breaking through the fourth wall, activating the spectator as a co-creator—become uniquely legible in the context of this engagement. Posner examines the artistic poetics of Meyerhold's grotesque, Tairov's mime-drama, and Eisenstein's theatrical attraction through production analyses, based on extensive archival research, that challenge the notion of theater as a mirror to life, instead viewing the director as a prism through whom life is refracted. A resource for scholars and practitioners alike, this groundbreaking study provides a fresh, provocative perspective on experimental theater, intercultural borrowings, and the nature of the creative process.
Download or read book Between Real and Unreal written by Stefan Bergström and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Real and Unreal presents new insights into E. T. A. Hoffmann's innovative use of the fantastic in his short fiction, as typified primarily by the collection «Die Serapionsbrüder». With Tzvetan Todorov's structuralist theories of the fantastic as a major point of departure, Stefan Bergström explores the unusual nature and method of Hoffmann's colorful depictions of a fantastic world between reality and imagination. The study is devoted to an analysis of several main themes represented in Hoffmann's literary production, particularly «Die Serapionsbrüder». Dr. Bergström argues that there is a structural, thematic coherence in this short story collection that gives it a special character based on a conscious interaction between a realistic and imaginary world.
Download or read book Nineteenth century Literature Criticism written by Laurie Lanzen Harris and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.
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Download or read book Bending the Frame in the German Cyclical Narrative written by Vickie L. Ziegler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frame story, a series of stories presented within a narrative, has been a staple in the catalog of literary genres ever since people started to tell tales. It enables the writer to integrate a wealth of heterogeneous material and to comment on contemporary events as well. German writers of the Romantic period, such as Achim von Arnim in Der Wintergarten (1809) and E. T. A. Hoffmann in Die Serapionsbruder (1818-21), followed Goethe in his expansion of the frame and began to experiment with the genre, making the first significant changes to the structure of the frame story in several hundred years. Written early in his career, Arnim's work has never received the attention it deserves. It provides us with an early example of tendencies that became important in his later work, such as the manner in which he adapted sources from the past for the present. His frame characters try to confront the reality of the Napoleonic wars and their significance for the Germans. Unlike Arnim's Der Wintergarten Hoffmann's Serapionsbruder was written near the end of his life. In the frame conversations, Hoffmann set down some of his final commentaries on major issues in German Romanticism: madness, the problems of the artist, and extrasensory phenomena. Consequently, the frame is an important and previously neglected interpretative resource, not only for the inner stories here, but also for the major works of both Arnim and Hoffmann. Vickie L. Ziegler examines these two cyclical narratives that are representative of two traditions (Arnim of Goethe's and Hoffmann of Tieck's) and then studies the interaction between the frames and the inner stories. She demonstrates, by means of strict and detailed textualanalysis, that there are significant linkages of meaning among the frame discourses and inner narratives. Written primarily for scholars of the late eigtheenth- and nineteenth- century German literature, this learned and perceptive volume will also interest students of comparative literature and medievalism.
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