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The Boundless Present: Space and Time in the Literary Fairy Tales of Novalis and Tieck

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By Gordon Birrell
1979
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
Series: UNC Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
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This volume is a study in the Romantic reshaping of space and time to evoke the fantastic interior landscape and the temporal dynamics of subjective experience. Close textual analysis is coupled with frequent reference to literary and intellectual history in the reassessment of the narrative art of Novalis and Tieck. The author examines Novalis' Hyazinth und Rosenblüte, Atlantis, Arion and Eros und Fabel as well as Tieck's Der blonde Eckbert and Der Runenberg. A concluding chapter examines spatio-temporal patterns in the Romantic fairy tale at large.

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Cover

Half-Title Page

pp. i

Series Page

pp. ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv-vi

Table of Contents

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix

Half-Title Page

pp. 1

Epigraph

pp. 2

Introduction

pp. 3-7

I. Self-Appropriation and the Long Journey Home: Space in the Märchen of Novalis

pp. 8-38

II. Split Terrain: Space in the Märchen of Tieck

pp. 39-62

III. Waiting for Fabel: Time in the Märchen of Novalis

pp. 63-89

IV. Between “Waldeinsamkeit” and Community: Time in the Märchen of Tieck

pp. 90-115

V. Space, Time, and the Romantic Fairy Tale

pp. 116-140

Notes

pp. 141-145

Bibliography of Works Cited

pp. 157-160
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