Platonic Epistemology in E.T.A. Hoffmann‘s Poetics (On the Basis of «Cavalier Gluck», «Don Juan», «Golden Pot» Tales)

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Yuliya G. Kotaridi

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Foreign Journalism and Literature, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: а-a-s@yandeх.ru

Section: History of Journalism

The article considers structural characteristics of Romantic tales by E. T.A. Hoffmann, directly dating back to the epistemological model of Neoplatonism. Platonic paradigm of short stories provides universality and polysemy of the narration.

Keywords: Neoplatonism, romanticism, Hoffmann, tales, epistemology