The Sandman
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The Sandman is a seminal Gothic short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann that explores themes of madness, perception, and the uncanny through a young man's obsession with a mysterious automaton.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sandman canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Gothic fiction work
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literary work ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| analyzedBy | Sigmund Freud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | E. T. A. Hoffmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Clara
NERFINISHED
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Coppelius NERFINISHED ⓘ Coppola NERFINISHED ⓘ Lothar NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathanael NERFINISHED ⓘ Olimpia NERFINISHED ⓘ Spalanzani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citedIn | Sigmund Freud's essay "The Uncanny" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collection | Nachtstücke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| explores |
boundary between human and machine
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psychological breakdown ⓘ unreliable perception ⓘ |
| featuresAutomaton | Olimpia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Nachtstücke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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horror fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
ballet and theatrical adaptations based on the story
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opera "Les contes d'Hoffmann" (as source for the Olympia act) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | psychoanalytic theory of the uncanny ⓘ |
| languageFeature | frame correspondence structure ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
important example of early 19th-century Gothic fiction
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key work in the literary treatment of the uncanny ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nathanael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motif |
automata
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eyes ⓘ optical instruments ⓘ the Sandman figure ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person frame narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Der Sandmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | German Romantic period ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1816 ⓘ |
| setting | German university town ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
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madness ⓘ mechanization of humans ⓘ obsession ⓘ perception ⓘ the double ⓘ the uncanny ⓘ vision and blindness ⓘ |
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