We also extend the critical arguments of Mattli, Bronfen, and Schmidt, and counter-argue against those of Hadlock, Asche, and Von Matt with regard to confined, comatose, and dead or dying women.

We use Booker's theories to support our contention that Hoffmann's approach to gender is non-conformist. selection from Hoffmann's stories, some examined in detail, we show how his writing permits widely differing critical readings. This is shown in the choice and treatment of character and plot in Hoffmann's works of prose fiction, and in how he employs tone and narratorial voice. Hoffman (1776–1822) subverts the accepted polarization of the sexes. This article argues that contrary to late-eighteenth, and early-nineteenth, century sexual politics and contemporary literary practice, the work of E.T.A. In short, Hoffmann’s fairy tales, in their historical context, offered a new way to interpret gender. Through examining differing critical interpretations of Hoffmann’s presentation of women, the authors argue that, set against the normative values of his time, “Princess Brambilla” takes a subversive position. By exploring the relationship between “Brambilla”’s unconventional heroine Giacinta-Brambilla, and unheroic hero Giglio-Chiapperi, their argument demonstrates how Giacinta’s dominance facilitates Giglio’s developing self-knowledge. The authors’ use of a Bakhtinian method to disentangle interdependent narrative strands in this carnivalesque fairy tale reveals its lack of a single patriarchal ideology. Conventionally, these discourses depicted men as dominating and women as subservient, whereas Hoffmann’s wide range of fairy-tale characters subverts a. Hoffmann’s literary fairy tales, particularly “Princess Brambilla: A capriccio in the style of Jacques Callot” (1820), focuses on his revisioning of contemporary social discourses on gender. This socio-linguistic study of a selection of E.T.A.

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