A Comparative Approach: The Early European Supernatural Tale: Five Variations on a Theme

ISBN-13: 9783631615645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 202 str.

German Gil-Curiel

Opis

This book explores the supernatural literature of Walter Scott, James Hogg, Theophile Gautier, Charles Nodier and Gerard de Nerval from a European perspective that casts them as part of a network rather than as the discrete, isolated artistic outcomes of different national literatures, by focusing on the central role played by the literature of E.T.A. Hoffmann during the first half of the nineteenth century. The author claims that Hoffmann had a seminal role through the reactions that his literature aroused. These reactions took place both in the realm of theory, for Hoffmann s works provoked a great deal of discussion on the nature and purposes of supernatural literature, and also in the realm of their literary writings themselves, with much cross-fertilisation taking place, sometimes enabled through translation and sometimes from direct experience. The author focuses on shared themes like the idealized dead beloved, and dreams, reveries and altered states."

Spis treści

Contents: Walter Scott - James Hogg - Théophile Gautier - Charles Nodier - Gérard De Nerval - E. T. A. Hoffmann - Supernatural Literature - Nineteenth Century - Europe - Scotland - France - Romanticism - Fantastic - Gothic - Tales - Short Stories - Nouvelles - Translation - Cross-Fertilisation - Imagination - Inner Self - Dreams - Oneiric - Reverie - Nightmare - Delirium Tremens - Eroticism - Death - Afterlife - Seer - Outcast - Visionary - Dreamer - Ghost - Spectre - Revenant - Witch - Elf - Goblin.

O autorze

Germán Gil-Curiel received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Sheffield. He is a lecturer in the Division of International Communication of the University of Nottingham at its campus in Ningbo (China). He is interested in supernatural literature and in the relationship between literature and other arts, especially music, painting and cinema.