27th Annual Student Research Conference
The Use of Nature as Self-Avenging in Tieck's "Der blonde Eckbert"
Megan E. Dice
Dr. David Partenheimer, Faculty Mentor
Just as the birds in Hitchcock's film wreak havoc, nature can provide a similar exacting revenge. In Tiecks Der blonde Eckbert, nature provides a self-avenging component for crimes against the natural order of the world. Likewise, two tales by the Brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel and The Juniper Tree, also center on natures ability to avenge itself. Throughout all stories, birds play an integral part in the execution of the offenders, providing a correlation between these stories and information about the German Romantic movement. While research concerning Tiecks work on nature exists, the leading scholars merely mention its use or fail to examine why Tieck portrays nature as he does: none of them examine the self-avenging component. In examining this trend, I will make discoveries about the treatment of nature in the German Romantic movement and address a component of Tiecks works unacknowledged by scholars.
Keywords: German Romanticism, Tieck, Nature, Self-Avenging, Der blonde Eckbert
Topic(s):English
German
Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: 407-1
Location: VH 1232
Time: 0:00