Hoffmann also read Montfaucon de Villar's Count of Gabalis or Conversations on the Hidden Sciences, from which he clearly derived material for his depiction of the elemental spirits (Robertson 1992, xiii). The theories of the romantic mythologist and linguist Johann Arnold Kannes, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature as Introduction to the Study of this Science also appear to have had an influence on The Golden Pot. Important appears to be Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Views on the Night Side of the Natural Sciences. Der goldne Topf, 1814) and Wolf Haas’ contemporary series of detective novels.The "deepening" of The Golden Pot probably also was influenced by published works that Hoffmann is known to have read shortly before and during the period of his work on the novella (Feldges & Stadler 1986, 72). Hoffman regarded it as his best story and it’s widely known as a masterpiece of romantic literature. Hoffmann’s Romantic-era novella The Golden Pot (orig. The Golden Pot: A Modern Fairytale is a novella written Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman, German romantic author of fantasy and horror, first published in 1814. This model builds the foundation for the two exemplary analyses of narrative texts which show a very distinct presence and manner of their respective narrator: E.T.A. In order to display the recursive embedding of perspectives and the crucial function of the narrator as a dynamic instance of mediation, evaluation and perception, the chapter introduces a three-staged model of narrative communication. The key premise of this chapter is the proposition that meta-discursive strategies reveal the underlying double structure of narrative discourse, since they are based on the constitutive distance between the narrator- and character-level (cf. The focus of the chapter thus lies on the narrative macrostructure on the one hand and the relation between narrative micro- and macrostructure on the other. The book-chapter aims to illustrate the dynamic functioning of the recursive double-layered structure – which this volume sets as constitutive for the narrative discourse – by means of exemplary analysis of complex strategies of perspectivization in narrative texts. Life in his fantasy dreams is exciting, unusual and important. His real life is dull, ordinary, and without meaning. 'The Golden Pot' fairy tale is about Anselmus, a young man who has a split personality.
Hoffmann, first published in 1814 and revised in 1819. (Linguistic Approaches to Literature 21) Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins, p. Der goldne Topf is a Romantic novella by E. In: Natalia Igl / Sonja Zeman (eds.): Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization.
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