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Der Erlkönig by Angela Carter

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Author Biography

Name: Angela (Olive) Carter
Variant Name: Angela (Olive) Carter, Angela Olive Carter, Angela Olive Stalker
Birth Date: May 7, 1940
Death Date: February 16, 1992
Nationality: British
Gender: Female

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Biography of Angela (Olive) Carter
8437 words, approx. 28.1 pages
Angela Carter's fantastic fiction is noteworthy for its stylistic excellence, its treatment of feminist themes, and its reliance on and reaction to motion-picture, fairy-tale, folklore, gothic, and science-fiction sources. Despite the fact that her posta...
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Biography of Angela (Olive) Carter
6205 words, approx. 20.7 pages
During the inventive last ten years of her life—when she produced two of the most festive and disturbing novels of the last years of the century, Nights at the Circus (1984) and Wise Children (1991)—Angela Carter also reinvented herself. She to...
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Biography of Angela (Olive) Carter
4398 words, approx. 14.7 pages
Angela Carter's fiction poses precisely the question of what is central, what eccentric in contemporary British writing. "We live in Gothic times," she wrote in an afterword to her 1974 collection of tales, Fireworks; and all her work reflects that perce...


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Der Erlkönig Information
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"Der Erlkönig" (often called just "Erlkönig") is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the "Erlking" (roughly translated as "evil spirit", but see the discussion of the legend below)....


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German Quarterly
Wilhelm Kühlmann. Vom Späthumanismus zur Spätaufklärung. Ästhetische und kulturgeschichtliche Dimensionen der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik und Verspublizistik in Deutschland
04/01/2007: 725 words, approx. 2 pages
Telle, Joachim, Friedrich Vollhardt, and Hermann Wiegand, eds. Wilhelm Kühlmann. Vom Späthumanismus zur Spätaufklärung. Ã"sthetische und kulturgeschichtliche Dimensionen der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik und Verspublizistik in Deutschland. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2006. 714 pp. euro146.00 hardcover. Colleagues have seen to the collection of thirty-seven previously published articles...
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Schwanengesang: Leibesbotschaft; Der Atlas; lhr Bild; Die Stadt; Am Meer, Die Taubenpost. An die Musik. An Schwager Kronos. Nähe des Geliebten. Erlkönig. Ganymed. Wandrers Nachtlied II. Jägers Abendlied. Prometheus1
05/01/2008: 567 words, approx. 2 pages
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang: Leibesbotschaft; Der Atlas; lhr Bild; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Die Taubenpost. An die Musik. An Schwager Kronos. Nähe des Geliebten. Erlkönig. Ganymed. Wandrers Nachtlied II. Jägers Abendlied. Prometheus1 * Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar); Günther Weissenbom (pn); Hertha Klust (pn)1 * AUDITE 95.583, mono...
 


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