The Author: Marc Falkenberg was born in Germany and studied history and literature at Trinity College Dublin and the Universities of Konstanz, Berlin, and Chicago. He received his doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Chicago in 2001. He currently teaches German and English in the International Baccalaureate programme at Chicago’s Lincoln Park High School.

• Contents: Freud’s «Uncanny» Re-evaluated – E.T.A. Hoffmann’s «Der Sandmann» - a Story of Persecution Told by a Persecuted Narrator – Clues Confirming the Existence of the Sandman – Nathanael’s Precarious Position as a Writer – Ludwig Tieck’s «Der blonde Eckbert» - the Uncanniness of Indifferent Fate – Paranoiac Structures of Perception in «Eckbert».

The Author: Marc Falkenberg was born in Germany and studied history and literature at Trinity College Dublin and the Universities of Konstanz, Berlin, and Chicago. He received his doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Chicago in 2001. He currently teaches German and English in the International Baccalaureate programme at Chicago’s Lincoln Park High School.

• Contents: Freud’s «Uncanny» Re-evaluated – E.T.A. Hoffmann’s «Der Sandmann» - a Story of Persecution Told by a Persecuted Narrator – Clues Confirming the Existence of the Sandman – Nathanael’s Precarious Position as a Writer – Ludwig Tieck’s «Der blonde Eckbert» - the Uncanniness of Indifferent Fate – Paranoiac Structures of Perception in «Eckbert».

The Author: Marc Falkenberg was born in Germany and studied history and literature at Trinity College Dublin and the Universities of Konstanz, Berlin, and Chicago. He received his doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Chicago in 2001. He currently teaches German and English in the International Baccalaureate programme at Chicago’s Lincoln Park High School.

• Contents: Freud’s «Uncanny» Re-evaluated – E.T.A. Hoffmann’s «Der Sandmann» - a Story of Persecution Told by a Persecuted Narrator – Clues Confirming the Existence of the Sandman – Nathanael’s Precarious Position as a Writer – Ludwig Tieck’s «Der blonde Eckbert» - the Uncanniness of Indifferent Fate – Paranoiac Structures of Perception in «Eckbert».