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Degree

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, German, 2006.

Abstract

This thesis focuses on examining the influence of Wittgenstein’s language theory, as presented in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, upon Bachmann’s prose. It will present an examination of her essays and her shorter prose, concentrating mainly on four stories found in the collection Das dreißgste Jahr, since they illustrate the parallels between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and Bachmann’s prose well and have received less attention than her novels. The chapters focus respectively on their understanding of “das Mystische” as that which cannot be truly spoken about, the problem of language in regard to the communication of “das Mystische,” and Bachmann’s concept of Utopia, as influenced by Wittgenstein and Robert Musil, in which she depicts Utopia as the arrival of a new language, as well as the process of attaining it. The thesis concludes with an analysis of “Ein Wildermuth,” in which all of these aspects are significantly present.

Subject Headings

Literature, Germanic

Keywords

Ingeborg Bachmann; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Das Mystische; The Problem of Language; Das dreissigste Jahr; Undine Geht; Alles; Ein Wildermuth; Utopia; Utopie; mystical

Advisor

Geoffrey C Howes

Pages

67p.

Document number: bgsu1143424083
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