Zugl.: München, Univ., Diss., 2008

Text in German / Summary in English / As a latecomer to the Romantic Movement, Hoffmann viewed art as a force drawn from within. He based his understanding of the artist on the Platonic reasoning about original and imitated art, which Plato correlated with his theories about the perfect World of Ideas. According to Hoffmann, a genius seeks beauty and knowledge as laid down by Neoplatonism, and has inner visions of the ideal world which is his inspiration. Such an especially sensible person, who is being called upon to remember his original, pre-existent state in the World of Ideas will, through this path of realization, be recognized as a true artist and genius. Constantly striving for the Neoplatonic Ideal, the earthly world becomes a place in which he no longer feels at home, and he seeks to be in the aspired ideal world which for Hoffmann is ultimately found in the inner self. / Classics and Modern European Languages / M.A. (Classics and Modern European Languages)

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.

Zugl.: Freiburg (Breisgau), Universiẗat, Diss., 2009.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Literature, August 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

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The starting point of this study is the history of the reception of the German romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) in Russia, which reached a highpoint around 1830. The interest in Hoffmann at this time is also reflected in the literary production of some Russian authors. One of the most important pioneers in this area was Antonij Pogorel'skij (1787-1836), at the present time an almost forgotten writer who, nevertheless, is regarded as the first significant representative of the so-called "Russian Hoffmannism." / This study sets out to analyze two comparable short stories, E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann" (The Sandman) and A. Pogorel'skij's "Pernicious Consequences of an Unrestrained Imagination". Besides the extensive comparative interpretation which concerns itself with the questions of origin and genre, as well as plot and character analysis, this study offers an insight into the structure and function of elements of the uncanny in these texts and their realisation in the rhetorical sphere. The correspondence in the content of these two stories justifies the title, "Mystery and Imagination", which has been borrowed from E. A. Poe.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-254).

Zugl.: Konstanz, Univ., Diss., 2007