The sacred and the diabolic in Theophile Gautier’s “La Morte

Authors

  • Érica Milaneze UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista/Araraquara

Keywords:

Romantismo, Literatura fantástica, Literatura comparada, Gautier, Romanticism, Fantastic literature, Comparative literature, Théophile Gautier.

Abstract

Théophile Gautier’s fantastic narrative “La morte amoureuse’s” dialogue with E.T.A Hoffman’s gothic narrative Die Elexiere des Teufels proves an important influence of German litterature in French romanticism. This study is a comparative analysis of the protagonists of both texts –Father Romuald and Monk Medard – characters divided between the sacred and the diabolic. Keywords: Romanticism. Fantastic literature. Comparative literature. ThéophileGautier.

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