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mhra — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:40:28 +0000

E.T.A. Hoffman and Alcohol – Biography, Reception and Art

mhra — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:51:51 +0000

About this book

Throughout critical debates on E.T.A. Hoffmann, discussions of alcohol, and in particular its influence on and significance within E.T.A. Hoffmann’s creative output, have been recurrent, impassioned and frequently divisive. Portrayals of the artist as tortured alcoholic, such as one finds in Offenbach’s Contes d’Hoffmann, continue to capture the public imagination, but have fallen out of favour with critics wishing to bolster Hoffmann’s status as a landmark writer.

Victoria Dutchman-Smith uses the specific fate of alcohol as a topic in literature, biography and criticism as a prompt for the re-evaluation of Hoffmann’s changing identities over the past two centuries: as artist, critic, Romantic, pre-emptive modernist, canonised great and, not least, as drinker. The role of alcohol in Hoffmann’s life and works cannot be separated from wider cultural and critical narratives, and Dutchman-Smith’s enthusiastic exploration of these sheds dramatic new light on the use and abuse of categorisation, not just in past and present responses to Hoffmann’s works, but in the very structures of literary debate.

About the author

Victoria Dutchman-Smith

Hamann’s Prophetic Mission A Genetic Study of Three Late Works against the Enlightenment

mhra — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:12:58 +0000

About this book

Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88) was one of the most radical and sophisticated critics of the German Enlightenment. The three late works Konxompax, Metakritik über den Purismum der Vernunft and Golgatha und Scheblimini!, written between 1779 and 1784, are polemics against iconic texts by the Enlightenment luminaries Lessing, Kant and Mendelssohn. This diverse and rich material, ranging from the Fragmentenstreitto Kant’s first Critique, is refracted through Hamann’s radical Lutheranism, with freemasonry and the pagan mystery religions adding lurid apocalyptic highlights. Hamann’s idiosyncratic style and heavily intertextual manner of composition give his works a fascinating and teasing complexity and put his writing at odds with the period’s preferred ideals of ease and elegance. For these reasons, he is a standing provocation to our assumptions about the 18th century.

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Timothy Beech

A Culture of Mimicry: Laurence Sterne, His Readers and the Art of Bodysnatching

mhra — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:22:29 +0000

About this book

After his death in 1768, the famous novelist Laurence Sterne did not rest undisturbed in his grave. While rumours of the theft and dissection of Sterne’s corpse circulated in the anatomy schools, numerous writers took possession of his literary body of work. New forms of Sternean entertainment were produced by literary mimics who impersonated the author through the medium of print, impersonations which included startling and unique interpretations of Sterne’s character and fiction.

Warren Oakley introduces two new critical concepts to eighteenth-century literary study, ‘bodysnatching’ and ‘mimicry’, to understand these texts that have been neglected and overlooked in Sterne studies. This lucid account reveals the personal stories of such literary mimics, the creative techniques they employed and the consequences of their actions upon the posthumous perception of Sterne, the man and his ‘cadaverous goods’.

About the author

Warren L Oakley is a Postdoctoral Tutor at the School of English, University of Leeds.

mhra — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:41:05 +0000

Narcisse Berchère, ‘Le Désert de Suez: cinq mois dans l’Isthme’

mhra — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:14:48 +0000

About this book

Narcisse Berchère was commissioned by Ferdinand de Lesseps to make a visual record of the first phase of the construction of the Suez Canal. To this end, he spent five months in the Isthmus, from November 1861 to March 1862. He is said, by his first biographer, Bernard Prost to have completed an ‘album’, containing 68 plans, drawings and watercolours.

This ‘album’ was given by Berchère to Ferdinand de Lesseps, who then presented it to Emperor Napoleon III, via the Duc de Bassano. It was held at the Palais des Tuileries in Paris, where it is believed to have perished, when the Palace was burned down in 1871, at the time of the Commune.

Fortunately, Narcisse Berchère also gave a verbal account of his experiences in a book, published by Jules Hetzel in 1863, Le Désert de Suez: cinq mois dans l’Isthme, of which this is the first new edition.

Connu surtout comme peintre orientaliste, Narcisse Berchère fut commandité par Ferdinand de Lesseps pour apporter un témoignage visuel de la première phase de la construction du canal de Suez. Au cours de sa mission, il passa cinq mois dans l’isthme de Suez en 1861 et 1862, et exécuta un album de 68 plans, dessins et aquarelles, qu’il remit à Lesseps, lequel l’offrit ensuite à l’empereur Napoléon III. Cet album aurait été détruit dans l’incendie du palais des Tuileries, sous la Commune en 1871. Heureusement, Berchère fit également de son séjour un témoignage écrit, dont le texte publié constitue la première réédition.

About the author

Professor Wright is Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin.

Single Combat and Warfare in German Literature of the High Middle Ages: Stricker’s Karl der Grosse and Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal

mhra — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:39:05 +0000

About this book

Combat is one of the central themes of Middle High German narrative literature, and of significant interest to medievalists in general. Nevertheless, few studies to date have attempted a detailed analysis of the depiction of combat in literary texts. Rachel Kellett uses an inclusive approach to the details of combat descriptions in order to analyse minutely the scenes of single combat and battle presented in two major narrative works by Der Stricker, the epic Karl der Große and the Arthurian romance Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal, written between 1220 and 1250. The author compares these works with a wide range of other texts, both French and German, and investigates the relationship between Stricker’s depiction of combat and that found in the works of Hartmann von Aue and Wolfram von Eschenbach among others. She also draws on historical research into medieval warfare, tournament and the tradition of the judicial combat, which adds valuable depth to her analysis of literary texts. Overall, this study provides new insights into the depiction of combat in Middle High German literature as a whole, while at the same time highlighting hitherto unnoticed aspects of the writings of Der Stricker as an individual author, and bringing a new perspective on the ambiguous role played by combat in the equally ambiguous Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal.

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Rachel E. Kellett

Paradox, Aphorism and Desire in Novalis and Derrida

mhra — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:35:27 +0000

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Building on recent investigations into affinities between early German Romanticism and French post-structuralism, this study brings together the work of Jacques Derrida with the writings of one of early Romanticism’s most important theorists, Frie

drich von Hardenberg (1772-1801), better known as Novalis. In contrast to recent criticism, which traces the historical path from Romanticism to modern theory in broad strokes, this book undertakes comparative readings of Novalis’ and Derrida’s texts on literature and philosophy. The book focuses on the significance both writers accord to paradox and argues that readings which are attuned to paradox can better appreciate the proximity of Romanticism and post- structuralism. As well as their affirmation of paradox, the texts of Novalis and Derrida testify to a profound respect for the Other, and the close readings of selected texts reveal remarkable similarities in their thinking on literature, philosophy and representation, and on the intricate interrelation between language, identity and desire.

About the author

Clare Kennedy