Year LXVIII, Issue 3s, 2026<<Archive
From Thеorеticаl Discoursе to Rеcеptivе Prаcticеs
GENRES IN THE THEORETICAL THOUGHT OF GERMAN ROMANTICISM WITH EXAMPLES FROM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL AND NOVALIS
This article examines the role of aphorism, fragment, and novel in the theoretical framework of German Romanticism, focusing on Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis. In contrast to rigid philosophical systems, the Romantics developed progressive Universalpoesie...
Genres; German romanticism; Friedrich Schlegel; Novalis; Antisystem
THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF HOFFMANN’S THE SANDMAN
The English reception of <i>The Sandman</i> seems to begin with Walter Scott’s overview of Hoffmann’s writing in 1827. The first English translation of the novella was published in 1834. The text was abridged and appeared in <i>The Keepsake</i>, highlightin...
The Sandman; English translation; imagination and the supernatural; Coleridge; Romantic.
THE “BULGARIAN” E. T.A. HOFFMANN – FIGURES OF MEDIATION
This paper attempts the hypothesis that Hoffmann’s Bulgarian reception is based on the principle of mediation. One aspect of this mediation is immediately identifiable with the first Bulgarian versions of his works translated from French and Russian translati...
E.T.A. Hoffmann; Jacques Offenbach; Bulgarian cultural memory; Mediation
Automаts, Dolls, Doppеlgаngеrs
AUTOMATEN, PUPPEN, HÜLLEN. SUBJEKTIVITÄT ZWISCHEN PROJEKTION, PERFORMANZ UND DISKURSIVER ZUSCHREIBUNG BEI E. T. A. HOFFMANN, WLADIMIR ODOJEWSKI, GUSTAV MEYRINK UND ALEKSANDR GRIN
Der Beitrag untersucht das Automatenmotiv bei E. T. A. Hoffmann (<i>Die Automate</i>, 1814; <i>Der Sandmann</i>, 1816), Wladimir Odojewski (<i>Holzgeist</i>, 1833), Gustav Meyrink (<i>Der Golem</i>, 1915) und Aleksandr Grin (<i>Die goldene Kette</i>, 1...
Automatenmotiv; Subjektivität; Projektion; Performanz; künstliche Intelligenz
THE UNCANNY AUTOMATON: FROM HOFFMANN TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
This study examines the figure of the automaton and the robot as a site of intersection between the human and the technological, between reality and simulation, through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s concept of das Unheimliche (“the uncanny”). Employing close re...
das Unheimliche; automaton; artificial intelligence; E. T. A. Hoffmann; uncanny valley; literary genealogy
DOPPELGANGERS AND IDENTITY (ON HOFFMANN’S THE SANDMAN AND VELICHKA NASTRADINOVA’S MISS WITCH)
This paper aims to find the intertextual connection between two short stories written in different periods: <i>The Sandman</i> by E. T. A. Hoffmann and <i>Miss Witch</i> by Velichka Nastradinova. It is the figure of the double that appears in both texts but...
short story; doppelganger; identity; uncanny; ethics.