Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McGlathery, James M.

Titel

E. T. A. Hoffmann and Alcohol: Biography, Reception and Art

Ist Teil von

• German Studies Review, 2012, Vol.35 (1), p.154-155

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: German Studies Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The discussion is divided into two sections, "Part I: The Artist as Drinker" (9-86) and "Part II: The Drinker as Artist" (87-167). In the first part Dutchman-Smith focuses largely on the shiftfrom the nineteenth-century concern that artists, and especially writers, serve as exponents of the national culture-morally worthy monuments to the country's cultural achievements-to the twentieth-century's turn away from making a religion of nationhood to making a religion of art, though she does not quite put it in these terms. The second part of the study turns with an open mind to questions such as how [E. T. A. Hoffmann] uses depictions of drinking in his works and what they tell us about the meaning of the works. The works discussed include the tales "Das Majorat," "Die Brautwahl," Meister Floh, Der goldne Topf, "Meister Martin der Küfner und seine Gesellen," "Der Magnetiseur," "Ignaz Denner," "Geschichte des Schneiderleins aus Sachsenhausen," "Die Geheimnisse," and the novel Die Elixiere des Teufels, in that order.