The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic TaleStanford University Press, 2003 - 289 стор. The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte's prototypical The Devil in Love as a starting point, this book examines the genre's early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the new literary form. The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other's potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating. |
Зміст
Elementargeist | 18 |
The Aesthetics of Shock and the Poetics of the Perverse | 58 |
The Power of the Artist | 109 |
Artificial Paradise and the Medial Woman | 148 |
Fantastic Encounters with the Marvels of History | 197 |
Epilogue or Turning the Screw from Shock to Fascination | 244 |
Notes | 257 |
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The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale Dorothea E. von Mücke Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2003 |
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aesthetic Alphonse Alvaro Antonia appears arabesque Arnim's artificial paradise artist Astraea beautiful becomes beloved Bertha's Biondetta bliss Blond Eckbert blood body Brusson Cardillac's Cazotte Cazotte's Clarimonde Clarimonde's contrast culture dead death desire Devil in Love diegetic distinction dream E.T.A. Hoffmann elaborates Elementary Spirit Emil's encounter English translation ethnic external eyes fantastic tale fiction figure frame narrative French friends Gautier's genre German Golem Golem Bella gothic novel Gypsies historical Hoffmann's human human sexuality identity idol Isabella Krespel Ligeia madness mandrake marvelous medial woman Mérimée Mérimée's metonymic modern mortal murder mysterious narrator's nature object observer occult perverse Peyrehorade pleasure Poe's poetic political position Professor X Prosper Mérimée protagonist's Pygmalion radically reader reading reality relationship representation Roderich Romuald's scene Scudéri seduction semiotic sense Serapion sexuality shock signifier statue's story strange supernatural tale's Tieck's tion traditional transformation Venus of Ille Venus statue Viktor's violin vision wedding Whereas young