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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Ernst T A Hoffmann |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dorothea E von Mücke |
| ISBN: | 0804738599 9780804738590 0804738602 9780804738606 |
| OCLC Number: | 50630523 |
| Description: | x, 289 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | 1. The fantastic in the cultural history of reading ; Cazotte's Le diable amoureux and Hoffmann's "Der Elementargeist" ; The Devil in love ; "Che Vuoi?" ; The glance behind the lure ; "The elementary spirit" ; Seduction through reading ; The passion of the lonely reader ; Manly valor and bachelordom by choice -- 2. The aesthetics of shock and the poetics of the perverse ; Paranoid Eckbert, melancholy Emil, and "the imp of the perverse" ; The limits of representation ; Blond Eckbert's paranoia ; Confessions gone awry: Eckbert's paranoia ; Bertha's story and the origin of sexuality ; "Rear window" or "love charm" ; The pathology of aesthetic subjectivity ; The love charm, the fantastic, and seduction by shock ; Between pathology and amorality: "the imp of the perverse" -- 3. The power of the artist ; Schmolling's insanity defense ; "Das Fräulein Von Scuderi" ; "Automata" and the simulation of life -- 4. Artificial paradise and the medial woman ; "Serapion," "Rat Krespel," "La morte amoureuse," and "Ligeia" ; Temporality, ideal beauty, and mortality ; Serapion: radical visionary bliss and the denial of the body's mortality ; "Councillor Krespel": narration and fantasy between two deaths, "La morte amoureuse" ; Ligeia: "her large and luminous orbs" ; Poe's arabesque, or, death by drapery ; "Hideous animation" -- 5. Fantastic encounters with the marvels of history ; "Isabella von Ägypten" and "La Vénus d'Ille" ; Bella's blood ; The political mixture of legend and history ; Isabella's sexuality and femininity ; The uses of blood ; The living past and its resistance to modernization ; "The Venus of Ille" ; The idol's looks and the idol's look ; The inspector's investment ; Signature, event, context: the narrator's blind spot -- Epilogue, or, turning the screw from shock to fascination. |
| Series Title: | Cultural memory in the present. |
| Responsibility: | Dorothea E. von Mücke. |
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"The brilliance of The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale is its intellectual courage and sure footedness in contextualizing complexity of subjectivity in the nineteenth century when the many ways of knowing the world were implicated in a competition for political dominance that insisted on the exclusion of any alternatives...[T]he book's virtues in exposing the intellectual dynamic of the beginning of the modern age make it valuable even for those not intimately engaged in literary study." -- <I>Leonardo Reviews</I> Read more...
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- Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism.
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