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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2008 44(4):412-426; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqn052
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© The Author (2008). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved. The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland: No. SC013532.

This article appears in the following Forum for Modern Language Studies issue: SPECIAL ISSUE: The Fantastic: An Enduring Literary Mode [View the issue table of contents]

Beyond a Mere Daydream: The Strange Pleasures of the Fantastic Tale in Cazotte, Tieck and Hoffmann

Dorothea von Mücke

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Columbia University
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
USA

dev1{at}columbia.edu

  Abstract

This article discusses the fantastic as an intra-aesthetic phenomenon and argues that the emergence of the new genre can be understood in terms of its relationship to the senses and to pleasure. An analysis of salient scenes from Cazotte, Tieck and Hoffmann shows that the fantastic relies on an aesthetics of shock as opposed to an aesthetics of calm contemplation.

Key Words: shock • author/artist figure • trauma • aesthetics • disillusionment • reader • desire • daydream • reality • Cazotte, Jacques • Tieck, Ludwig • Hoffmann, E. T. A.


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