'Adelbert Chamisso und Hans Christian Andersen im Dialog': Medienschwellen in Adelbert von Chamissos Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte und Hans Christian Andersens Skyggen

Scholars of Andersen and Chamisso have largely overlooked the long-standing intellectual and aesthetic exchange between Anderson and Chamisso. They had an intensive friendship in 1831, thus leaving the intertextual connection between Chamisso's and Andersen's texts aside. Andersen read Ade...

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Published inGerman studies review Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 233 - 253
Main Author Wray, Miriam Annabelle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.05.2021
Subjects
Aesthetics
Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875)
Chamisso, Adelbert von (1781-1838)
Christians
Danish literature
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Fairy tales
Folklore
Friendship
German literature
Hoffmann, E T A (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) (1776-1822)
Intertextuality
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Logic
Metaphor
Palimpsests
Text analysis
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Summary:Scholars of Andersen and Chamisso have largely overlooked the long-standing intellectual and aesthetic exchange between Anderson and Chamisso. They had an intensive friendship in 1831, thus leaving the intertextual connection between Chamisso's and Andersen's texts aside. Andersen read Adelbert von Chamisso's famous Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte just before writing his fairy tale Skyggen. Other writers at this time such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Eduard Mörike, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Edgar Allen Poe have also widely used the metaphor of the shadow. In this essay, Chamisso's and Andersen's texts are examined as texts that conform to their respective media boundaries, while also sharing an intertextual interdependency.
ISSN:0149-7952
2164-8646
2164-8646
DOI:10.1353/gsr.2021.0037