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11 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.u7rwm8
- isbn: 9781906924102
- eisbn: 9781906924119
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folktales tales Germany tradition fiction moral tales didactic tales religious tales historical tales First World War Franco-Prussian War Thirty Years War German history Literature LIT009000 DSYSujets proches
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David Blamires, « 13. E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Nutcracker and Mouse King », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.u7rwm8
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Hoffmann’s Nußknacker und Mausekönig is an extraordinarily innovative and unusual piece of writing for children, way ahead of its time in its complete abandonment of didacticism and moral instruction. Almost fifty years before Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland it incorporates its original audience as characters within the story, but whereas Alice blends fantasy with parody and comedy the Nutcracker displays a less whimsical, perhaps more subtle sense of humour. It is a more rea...