...Peter J. Graves Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 E. T. A. HOFFMANN’S JOHAJSJ’NES KREISLER VERRUCKTER MUSIKUS”? By PETERJ. GRAVES It is one of the ironies and tragedies of literary history that the two prospectively...

.... However, when we consider that T (that is, Tarr) indulges his moral weakness and dramatizes his cruelty; that Kreisler binds himself to Bertha by raping her during a portrait session; that he accidentally kills a man whom he meant to kill by design; that he commits suicide; that Tarr marries...

... Vordergrund und Durchgangs- stadium ist. Das Seelengemalde Kreisler und der Mythos des goldenen Topfes lassen sich nicht episodisch resumiert vermitteln, und das sorgfaltige Reper- torium von Hoffmanns Einfallen ist kein Ersatz fur ein Bild seiner Idee. Diese spiirbar zu machen, wie...

... stifle his individual development. We might place Florenz Kraft beside the professional Johannes Kreisler and the enthusiast-turned-semi-professional Joseph Berg- linger as a third type of romantic musician in literature : the intuitive, visionary layman. Kraft’s naivetC toward art...

..., “The Sacramental View of Love in the Nineteenth and l’wentieth Ceniuries”; Fabian Gudas, “1. A. Ilichards and the Principle of Complementarity”; Lloyd N. Dendinger, “The Dynamic Structural I3alance of Sir Gazunin and llze Green Knight”; N icolni von Kreisler, “Satire in Dame Szidh...

..., 19771, pp. 18, 97). Nicolai von Kreisler argues that Chaucer knew Aesop collections presumed not to be available in Western Europe until the fifteenth century ("An Aesopic Allusion in the Merchant's Tale," The Chaucer Review, 6 [ 1971-721: 30-37, pp. 32-33). ' W.F. Bryan and Germain Dempster...

..., Together with a Fragmentary Biography of the Kapellmeis- ter Johannes Kreisler in Occasional Waste Sheets, Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, and Edgar Allan Poe’s “MS. Found in a Bottle.” The device of the found manuscript is also a stock convention of the gothic novel, as when Adeline, the heroine...