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Ml 48106 18 BEDFORD ROW. LONDON WC1R 4EJ, ENGLAND 8107353 KRAUSE, MAUREEN THERESE AN ANALYSIS OF E. T. A. HOFFMANN'S DOUBLE NOVEL "LEBENSANSICHTEN DES KATERS MURR NEBST FRAGMENTARISCHER BIOGRAPHIE DES KAPELLMEISTERS JOHANNES KREISLER IN ZUFALLIGEN MAKULATURBLATTERN. HERAUSGEGEBEN VON E. T. A. HOFFMANN" The Ohio State University PH.D. 1980 University Microfilms International 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Copyright wso by KRAUSE, MAUREEN THERESE All Rights Reserved PLEASE NOTE: In all cases this material has been filmed in the best possible way from the available copy. Problems encountered with this document have been identified here with a check mark ^ . 1. Glossy photographs ________ 2. Colored illustrations ________ 3. Photographs with dark background ________ 4. Illustrations are poor copy_________ 5. °rint shows through as there is text on both sides of page _______ 6. Indistinct, broken or small print onseveral pages // 7. 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HOFFMANN DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Maureen Therese Krause, B.A., M.A * * * * * The Ohio State University 1980 Reading Committee: Approved By Professor Hugo Bekker Professor Donald Riechel Professor Gisela Vitt To David ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my teachers at Northwestern University, especially Professors Gloria Flaherty, C.R. Goedsche, Erich Heller, Hans Egon Holthusen, Geza von Molnar and Meno Spann? and my teachers at Ohio State University, especially Professors Hugo Bekker, Johanna S. Belkin, Wolfgang Fleischhauer, Oskar Seidlin and Wolfgang Wittkowski. My special thanks go to Professors David Benseler, Werner Haas, Charles W. Hoffmann, Donald Riechel and Heimtraut Taylor. My very special thanks go to my ad­ visor, Professor Gisela Vitt, whose thorough criticism and insights contributed immeasurably to this dissertation. VITA June 17, 1947. Born - Evanston, Illinois 1969 ............. .. B.A. With Distinction, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1969 ............... Diploma, Stanford E.P.D.A. Institute for Advanced Study, Bad Boll, Germany 1969-197 2 ........... University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1970 ............... M.A., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1970-197 4 ........... Teaching Associate, Department of German, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 197 1 ............... Departmental Good Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Associates, Department of German, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1974-1977........... Senior Translation Aide, Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio 1977-1978; 1979-1980 Teaching Associate, Department of German, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1980 Instructor of German, Department of German, The Ohio State University FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: German Studies in Literature. Professors Hugo Bekker, Johanna S. Belkin, Oskar Seidlin and Wolfgang Wittkowski. Studies in Language and Philology. Professor Wolfgang Fleischhauer v TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................... iii VITA .......................................................... iv LIST OF FIGURES............................................. viii INTRODUCTION ............................................... I PART I. THE DOUBLE STRUCTURE OF TIME AND SPACE IN KATER MURR...........................................35 Chapter 1. THE TEMPORAL SETTING OF THE NOVEL.............. 36 A. The "Namensfest." The Structural Nu­ cleus of the Spatial-Temporal Double­ ness ...................................... 36 B. The Total Chronology ..................... 41 C. The Duality of the Time-Treatment in the Novel. Murr-Time and Kreisler- T i m e ...................................... 51 2. THE SPATIAL SETTING OF THE N O V E L .............. 69 A. M u r r - S p a c e ................................ 73 B. Kreisler-Space............................81 PART II. THE NARRATORS OF THE DOUBLE NOVEL. THE FRAGMENTATION OF THE NARRATIVE FUNCTIONS . 97 Chapter 1. NARRATIVE FRAMEWORK OF THE DOUBLE NOVEL. 98 A. The Outer Frame. The Fictitious E d i t o r ................................... 103 B. The Inner Framework. Murr's Double F o r e w o r d .................................120 vi 2. THE NARRATORS OF THE DOUBLE NOVEL.......... 129 A. Murr as Narrator ...................... 130 B. The Kreisler-Biographer............... 143 C. The Shifting Perspectives. 156 PART III. THE CHARACTERS OF THE DOUBLE NOVEL.......... 167 Chapter 1. MURR AND KREISLER. THE DOUBLE HERO. 168 A. Murr and Kreisler as Individuals . .170 B. Murr and Kreisler as Social Beings . 177 C. Ambiguities in Stylistic Expression. 184 2. MEISTER ABRAHAM. UNITY IN TWO-NESS. 200 CONCLUSION ................................................ 231 APPENDIX ...................................... ..... 248 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................ 253 vii LIST OF FIGURES Page 1. THE SPATIAL-TEMPORAL STRUCTURE ................... 38 2. THE STRUCTURAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TIME SEQUENCES. 40 3. DOUBLE NARRATED "PRESENT" OF K10 - K 1 7 .......... 42 4. CHRONOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL SEQUENCES OF K10-K17. 46 5. NARRATED TIMES AND NARRATING TIMES .............. 50 6. STRUCTURE OF KREISLER-TIME ......................... 53 7. TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF KI2..........................61 8. MURR-SPACE ......................................... 74 9. KREISLER-SPACE..................................... 84 10. STANZEL'S TYPOLOGICAL CIRCLE......................... 101 11. THE OUTER AND INNER FRAMEWORK OF MU R R ................. 121 12. RELATIONSHIP OF MURR'S NARRATING SELF AND EXPERI­ ENCING SELF ............................................133 13. THE NARRATIVE RELATIONSHIPS IN K 1 .................... 145 viii Introduction E.T.A. Hoffmann's last major work, Lebensansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapell­ meisters Johannes Kreisler in zufdlligen Makulaturbid.ttern. Herausgegeben von E.T.A. Hoffmann (1819/21) represents the summation and culmination of his art. From the be­ ginning, Hoffmann's poetic world is characterized by a dualistic world view. In other words, Hoffmann's works il­ lustrate two ways of perceiving the same reality: the rational mode of the sober philistine, or non-artist, who regards the marvelous ("das Wunderbare") as a realm re­ moved from empirical reality and perceives the odd ("das Wunderliche") as a deviation from the norm; and the mode of the creative artist who perceives the odd as the manifesta- 2 tion in this world of the marvelous. The two radically different modes of perceiving the same reality give rise to the doubleness that informs many of Hoffmann's works, in­ cluding doubleness in narrative structure, temporal struc­ ture, spatial structure? duality of perspective; and dupli­ cation of characters. Doubless