Novelistic Fiction at the Confluence of Magical and Fantastic. Space, Time, Instances in the Novel”Heinrich von Ofterdingen” Cover Image

FICȚIUNEA ROMANESCĂ LA CONFLUENȚA DINTRE MAGIC ȘI FANTASTIC. SPAȚIU, TIMP, INSTANȚE ÎN ROMANUL HEINRICH VON OFTERDINGEN
Novelistic Fiction at the Confluence of Magical and Fantastic. Space, Time, Instances in the Novel”Heinrich von Ofterdingen”

Author(s): Mioara Mocanu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: fantasy genre; formal marks; ultra-significant potential; narrative principles; enuntiative system

Summary/Abstract: Despite failing to belong to the fantasy genre, Novalis’s work provides an abundant series of specific formal marks, allowing us to place it in a moderate register of this genre. Our endeavour is conceived as an unsystematic attempt to recognize at topic and narrative level (content form) a series of signals which, via their ultra-significant content, would provide guidance towards a mode of reading that might apply to the fantasy text. The narrative principles of the novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen are sustained, but also menaced, by the abundance of the scenes of dialogue, the mixture of dream and reality, insertions of poetry and narration, affecting the in-depth linearity of the story and its inner chronology. In analysing this novel, we equally focused on some of the procedures used by the narrator in the enuntiative system, capable to turn Novalis’s discourse in the privileged place of a paroxysmal expression of the romantic dissonance between the Ego and world

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 54-66
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian