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“... in his career when he could swat away the advances made by editors of literary magazines, E.T.A. Hoffmann asked a particularly demanding publisher to disabuse himself of the ‘unfortunate notion that I am suffering from a writer’s diarrhoea whereby, with every evacuation, some little story or novel makes its exit!’ In the same letter, written in January ...”

“... musician of the age. Weber’s satire appeared in 1809, at around the same time that E.T.A. Hoffmann published the two famous Beethoven reviews in his Kreisleriana which remain to this day outstanding examples of perceptive analysis – the one on the Fifth Symphony, the other on the two piano trios Op. 70. In his attack, Schindler also called to his ...”

“... Die Gebüsche over the first movement of the Fantasie, but the more cryptic references to extra-musical sources which inform the substance, and sometimes the structure, of Schumann’s music. It is Daverio’s central thesis that Schumann, who once defined music as ‘poetry raised to a higher power’, constantly sought to evoke a literary analogue ...”

“... of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold – a work said to have been left unfinished by E.T.A. Hoffmann at his death; the score now to be completed by a singularly unattractive and difficult young genius named Hulda Schnakenburg (‘Twaddlesville’?), who will thereby earn her PhD in Music. To help things along, the famous and redoubtable musicologist. Dr ...”

“... pretty good in Murnau, but in Herzog they are very nearly the stars of the film, like a gang of extras in a Hollywood epic – large, swarming, full of energy. They make Nosferatu’s mournful self-pity – it’s not easy living an eternal life, he says, and seems to regret his addiction to blood almost as much as he enjoys it – look very low-spirited by ...”

“... it hard, ultimately, to understand his cast of mind. ‘Klee is like somebody out of an E.T.A. Hoffmann story about the small-town Germany of the 18th century: comfortable, musical, modest and fantastic,’ Clement Greenberg once wrote. Or later in the same essay: Klee is not subversive. He is well content to live in a society and culture that he has ...”

“... experimental musical forms inspired by iconoclastic literary figures such as Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann. Liszt, despite being implicitly attacked by Brahms as the epitome of Zukunftsmusik, showed a historicist side in his transcriptions of works by Bach and Beethoven. It was only with the appearance of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht in 1899, marrying ...”

“... The Soviet period has seen editions of Horace Walpole, Ludwig Tieck, the brothers Brentano, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Charles Maturin, Jacques Casot, Novalis and others in a revised Russian translation. Although the editions were limited and the books were to become bibliographical rarities almost as soon as they left the printing houses, they are still very much ...”

“... but with a thesis. This is that the theme of the double – a theme so dear to James Hogg, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Dostoevsky – has its origin in Christian dualism, and then becomes a literary device, and part of a moral psychology. What concerns Herdman more is what happens to the whole idea of the double once a scientific psychology gets its hands on the ...”

“... transposes into the manner of Flaubert or Chekhov a legend recounted more fantastically by E.T.A. Hoffmann in ‘The Mines of Falun’. In Sweden, during the late 1890s, Anders Bodén – the henpecked manager of a sawmill – falls in love with Barbro Lindwall, the irreproachable wife of the town’s new pharmacist. Barbro loves him too, but – the time and ...”

“... this was an important theme in 19th-century literature in France, Germany and Britain (in E.T.A. Hoffmann and Adelbert von Chamisso, for example). Freud epitomised the feeling of the ‘uncanny’ by recounting an occasion when he mistook his own reflection for a stranger. The opposite situation was reported by Michaux: ‘More than once when I turned a ...”

“... genre, although for sheer malevolent complexity they rarely match those of his predecessor, E.T.A. Hoffmann, another of his early heroes). Where the connection between the life and the work is concerned, what stands out is a deep-seated refusal to grow up, most notably in his sexuality. Andersen was oscillatingly bisexual, with his homoerotic attachments the ...”

“... than a hundred times), but also in Paris, Lisbon, Moscow and even Rio de Janeiro. The young E.T.A. Hoffmann, who attended a performance in Königsberg, wrote that the music, ‘as always with Salieri, is outstanding: its wealth of ideas and its perfection of declamation put it on the same level as Mozart’s’. Da Ponte claimed to be unable to decide whether ...”

“... mechanics of the story, she gives you the tools. She liked writers, she said, like Poe and E.T.A. Hoffmann, who ‘deal directly with the imagery of the unconscious – mirrors, the externalised self, forsaken castles, haunted forests, forbidden sexual objects’. She too likes to put the clutter of the unconscious on the page, where it can be seen and ...”

“... of the Faustbuch of 1587), through Molière’s sophisticated immoraliste, E.T.A. (Amadeus) Hoffmann, Byron, Kierkegaard (the aesthetic v. the ethical) and Richard Strauss, to Shaw and Eric Linklater. The sociological aspects of the ever-interesting topic are not neglected. Taking his tip from the 354 acknowledged bastards of Augustus the ...”