The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic TaleThe 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. |
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Indhold
The Fantastic in the Cultural History of Reading | 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 |
| 273 | |
| 282 | |
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The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale Dorothea E. von Mücke Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2003 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
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Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale Cultural memory in the present |
| Forfatter | Dorothea E. von Mücke |
| Udgiver | Stanford University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0804738602, 9780804738606 |
| Længde | 289 sider |
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