Влиянията на тривиалната литература от XVIII и началото на XIX век в творчеството на Хофман
The influence of Eighteenth-century Trivial Literature on the work of E.T.A. Hoffmann

Author(s): Ivan Popov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Short Story, German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: E.T.A. Hoffmann; Romanticism; Gothic novel; popular literature; trivial plot
Summary/Abstract: The text explores the connection between E.T.A. Hoffmann’s literary work and the trivial (mainly Gothic) novel from the second half of the 18 century. Instead of a so called “symptomatic” reading, here the focus is put on the narrative strategies and the plot construction in the German author’s fictional texts. The conclusion is that Hoffmann creatively borrows certain fundamental techniques from popular literature in order to express the Romantic concept of the controversial unity between literature and life.

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