One of the major challenges in Western literature and philosophy today is seeking non-dualistic
perspectives of the world. This study examines the German romantic Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853)
with just such an end in mind. It focuses on how Tieck's early works combine multifaceted
narrative contexts like framing tales and the mixing of genres with ambiguously defined
connections among the various figures and the natural world in order to reveal unexpected and
often inexplicable interdependencies. It also demonstrates how Tieck's early novellas and
novels when considered in light of the «intercontextuality» of the figures in their layered
tales suggest a much less autonomous «subject.»
