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the sandman

Nathanael the German Romantic

While writing my essay on the German short stories this past weekend, I reread E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Sandman” and made some connections that I hadn’t previously noticed. Throughout the story, the main character Nathanael’s love of creative writing and poetry … Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2015 | Tagged with E.T.A. Hoffmann, the sandman

Nightmares and Warm Milk

Last week we covered a couple of children stories (Snow White and The Sandman) and one thing they definitely had in common is that they were both pretty creepy. Because I can’t really wrap my head around the moral purpose of Snow White, my question revolves more around The Sandman. Are children so hard to […]

Posted in blogs, lb4-2015 | Tagged with Folk Tales, the sandman

Uncanny similarities between “Eckbert” and “The Sandman”

It seems that for the past few weeks, the uncanny has been a recurring theme in both lectures and seminars. “The Sandman” was directly analyzed by Freud for a source of the uncanny, and in turn, the three short stories … Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb1-2015 | Tagged with E.T.A Hoffman, Fair-Haired Eckbert, Ludwig Tieck, the sandman

E.T.A. Hoffmann, “The Sandman”

In Arts One last week, we read a number of texts by Freud, including “The Uncanny,” in which he discusses a short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann called “The Sandman.” Here’s a version of this short story, though it’s not the translation we read: http://germanstories.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand_e.html We used the version of the story in this book: Five […]

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