Thesis (Ph. D.)--Freie Universität Berlin, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-262).

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Hamburg, 1967.

Thesis--Rostock. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-60).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Basel, 1934. / Vita. "Diese Arbeit ist der erste Teil des demnächst im Verlag "Die Runde" Berlin erscheinenden Buches: E.T.A. Hoffmann. Ein Kampf um das Bild des Menschen"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references in "Anmerkungen" (p. 133-140).

Diss., Univ. Lüttich, 2008.

Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2002. / Written for the Dept. of German. Includes bibliographical references.

Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-78).

Zugelich: Diss. Frankfurt (Oder), 2008. / Literaturverz.

The musicians in E. T. A. Hoffmann's tales and essays demonstrate traits remarkably similar to those of shamans. Hoffmann uses the same imagery to describe the journey of the composer into the "realm of dreams," where he receives inspiration, as the shaman uses to describe the spirit world to which he journeys via music. Hoffmann was a major force in changing the 18th-century view of music as an "innocent luxury" to the 19th-century idea of music as a higher art. As a German Romantic,author, he subscribed to the idea championed by the Schlegels that true poetry is based on myth. In this thesis, Hoffmann's writings are compared with shamanic mythology to demonstrate a similarity beyond mere coincidence, without drawing conclusions about influence.

Issued also as thesis, University of Chicago. / Bibliography: p. [261]-272.