Ricarda Schmidt

E.T.A. Hoffman's "Der Sandmann": An Early Example of Écriture Féminine? A Critique of Trends in Feminist Literary Criticism

author. The difference between hero, narrator, and abstract author is of vital importance in Hoffmanns writing. The abstract author has the ironic distance which his heroes so often lack. Irony can be found on three levels in Hoffmann: in the colloquial sense of the

Macht und Ohnmacht der Erziehung: Kleist im Kontext von Wieland und Schiller

Starting from Kleist’s lifelong reflection on education, the article explores how Kleist criticizes imitation on the level of pedagogy and draws aesthetic conclusions from this which relate to Wieland and Schiller in a constructive way. He learns from both of them that it is not necessarily the presentation of the morally good in art which has the greatest effect. Wieland inspires him to a comic and Schiller to a sublime representation of mistakes from which the reader, rather than the hero, can learn.