A Study of the Major Novellas of E.T.A. Hoffmann

The book serves as a helpful, well-researched introduction and resource for Hoffmann's short fiction. CHOICE ...succeeds as an introduction to the many texts in which Hoffmann's artists struggle in the Romantic conflict that pits the ideal against the mundane. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEWbr> (Roder's) chapter on "Don Juan" is ... the intellectual apex of the book. Here Roder dazzles us with the most sinuous extrapolation of various dialectical oppositions in the text, all generated by Mozart's music... MONATSHEFTE Following a well documented introduction to the critical literature on Hoffmann, Roder provides a precise and clear analysis... of what she terms "the romantic dilemma." ETUDES GERMANIQUES Roder's book offers a fine introduction to the tales of Hoffmann for those with a reading knowledge of German... (It) is both a solid contribution and an invitation for more work on an author too often neglected. GOETHE YEARBOOK