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Dividing time: musical memory and the dis-closure of fate in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Die Automate.(Critical essay)

Studies in Romanticism,  December, 2006  by Benert, Colin

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"DER TURKE WOLLTE, WIE DU BEMERKT HABEN WIRST, DURCHAUS nicht antworten" ["the Turk was most unwilling to answer me, as I daresay you observed"], (1) and one can appreciate the oracle's initial reticence. Here comes Ferdinand, the Romantic poet, and he wants to learn his rite, when the Romantic poet, by definition, has always already known his fate.

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The fate of the Romantic poet, as if the reader didn't know, is to lose the better, feminine part of his soul in early childhood, and to spend the rest of his life trying to restore that part, thus to regain the ...

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