{"product_id":"rethinking-the-uncanny-in-hoffmann-and-tieck-9783039102846","title":"Rethinking the Uncanny in Hoffmann and Tieck","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter D. G. Brown | Marc Falkenberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis stimulating new book challenges Freud's definition of the uncanny, prevalent in the study of Gothic and Romantic fiction, by reviving the importance of uncertainty in the uncanny. Literary criticism views the uncanny as an expression of the return of the repressed. Falkenberg's expanded definition includes, but is not limited to, the psychoanalytic and instead redefines the uncanny as a cognitive and aesthetic phenomenon. \u003cbr\u003e Beyond offering a survey of what David Punter has called  The Theory of the Uncanny , this study places the uncanny in the context of the poetological and philosophical background of the Romantic period. In close readings of two stories that have stood at the center of the debate about the uncanny - E.T.A. Hoffmann's  Sandman  and Ludwig Tieck's  Blond Eckbert  - the author shows how these texts are constructed as uncanny phenomena in themselves. The study traces fairytale elements, framing techniques, and interdependencies between the fictional productions of the protagonists and their  dark fates  to expose how these texts confront the reader with paradoxical decoding instructions. \u003cbr\u003e This expanded and revised uncanny not only yields new readings of two classic German short stories, it also leads to a better understanding of the cultural soil that nourished the Romantic Movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47813598576791,"sku":"9783039102846","price":6593.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783039102846.webp?v=1778337084","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rethinking-the-uncanny-in-hoffmann-and-tieck-9783039102846","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}