Browsing by Author "Barbara Hahn"
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Bruegmann, Nora (2015-12-04)Department: GermanWhen Marcel Proust wrote his major novel, À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, he kept reworking it to the last moment of his life (He died in 1922). In this dissertation I argue, that the German translators and others working ...
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Fisher, Clara Jean (2018-08-27)Department: GermanComposition, Variation, Edition as Interpretation: On Publishing Poetry Collections Clara Fisher Dissertation under the direction of Professor Barbara Hahn Around the turn of the century into the 20th, a phenomenon ...
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Sterling, Brett Earl (2013-06-24)Department: GermanThis dissertation explores the representation of masses in the works of Austrian exile author Hermann Broch. I argue that the largely indirect representations of the mass in Broch’s work are indicative of a persistent ...
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Knabe, Oliver (2017-03-31)Department: GermanThis dissertation investigates the grounds for the West-German writer’s politicization during the 1960s with its most prominent manifestation being the brief alliance between the authors and the Social Democratic Party. ...
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McEwen, Kathryn Elizabeth (2013-04-17)Department: GermanHand/Arbeit/Buch/Schrift investigates the persistent absence of the female hand from representation. It suggests that the female hand embodies a pernicious blind spot in the humanist discourse, resisting representa-tion ...
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Hiegemann, Mike (2017-06-21)Department: GermanPinpointing the significance of places in the works of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Einar Schleef is the objective of a close reading that seeks to contextualize their social, historical, economical, technological, and ...
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Ebner, Maria (2013-04-04)Department: GermanThe dissertation traces Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s writing of love and death and stages questions on reading, thinking, and writing within an academic context. As one of the most talked about and celebrated spokeswoman of ...
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Edwards, Elizabeth Weber (2012-12-11)Department: GermanElisabeth Langgässer (1899-1950) was a German-Catholic writer banned from publishing by the Nazi regime because she was classified as half-Jewish. This dissertation sheds new light on Langgässer’s final works by reading ...
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Samek, Nicole (2013-04-24)Department: GermanIn the thesis entitled “Natur als Utopie: Novalis‘ Heinrich von Ofterdingen im Kontext der romantischen Naturphilosophie,” the concept of nature and its many different meanings developed throughout history will first be ...
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Pastorale. Musik, Melancholie und die Kunst der Selbstregierung im Werk von Christoph Martin Wieland Frömming, Gesa (2011-12-09)Department: GermanBased on an analysis of Christoph Martin Wieland’s political novel "Der Goldne Spiegel" (1772), his libretto "Die Wahl des Herkules" (1773), and his essays on music theatre (1773/1775) in the broader context of the German ...
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Looney, Mark Einer (2010-04-27)Department: GermanThis study of the constellation of terrorism and literature focuses on how three recent German metafictional novels have used terrorism as a tool for their own self-reflection as literary texts. The creation of subjectivity ...
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Painter, Cassandra Lynn (2018-07-30)Department: HistoryThis dissertation concerns the life and subsequent cult of veneration of Anna Katharina Emmerick, a Westphalian woman discovered to exhibit stigmata during the Napoleonic occupation and secularization of German Europe. Her ...
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Kieslich, Ingo (2013-04-15)Department: GermanThis dissertation is concerned with the topic of storytelling, and by extension narrative, in the works of Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. My interest is aimed not only at storytelling as a topic in the authors’ works, ...
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Riviere, Jessica Leigh (2014-04-03)Department: GermanMy project reveals that German women around 1800 used the essay to participate in the emerging public sphere. I build on the work of Rohner, Schärf and McCarthy that positions the German essay as an established literary ...