German: Recent submissions
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Ideal, Conflict, Destruction. Lovers' Dreams in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries (Wieland's Don Sylvio von Rosalva, Hoffmann's Die Elixiere des Teufels and Bachmann's Malina)
(Koenigshausen and Neumann, 14 February 2019)This essay looks at novels from three different centuries – Christoph Martin Wieland’s Don Sylvio de Rosalva (1764), E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Devil’s Elixirs (1815/16) and Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina (1971) – each of which ... -
Lovers’ Dreams - the Path to Heaven or Hell. Anthropological assumptions and narratological functions of the dreams in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Das Gelübde and Prinzessin Brambilla
(Koenigshausen and Neumann, 1 January 2018)Starting from the observation that the metaphorical use of the term ›dream‹/›dreamer‹ is evaluated in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s (1776–1822) work in diametrically opposed ways, this essay explores the anthropological assumptions ... -
Lovers’ Dreams – the Path to Heaven or Hell. The Janus-Face of Dreams and their Discursive Context in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Das Gelübde and Prinzessin Brambilla
(Koenigshausen and Neumann, 1 January 2018)Starting from the observation that the metaphorical use of the term ›dream‹/›dreamer‹ is evaluated in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s (1776–1822) work in diametrically opposed ways, this essay explores the anthropological assumptions ... -
Exhibiting negative feelings: writing a history of emotions in German history museums
(University of Leicester, 30 November 2016)This article moves beyond recent work on visitor emotions to ask: How are the emotions of past eras (and more particularly of twentieth-century Germany) historicized in history exhibitions? How can the academic field of ...