Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "German"
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(2022-08-08)Department: GermanBeginning in the latter half of the 1990s through the 2000s and 2010s, the field of video-based contemporary art installations displayed an enormous increase in the application of documentary images. Emboldened by the ...
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(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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(2021-03-25)Department: GermanThis dissertation centers on the depiction of migration from an African-German literary perspective, critiquing the published literature written by migrants and non-migrants on the challenges of immigration. African-German ...
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(2020-07-21)Department: GermanFor Ernst Jünger, collecting was a lifelong process of constructing nature in his own particular way. With the capacity to recreate the natural world in its diversity, collecting provided a path to the idyllic comfort of ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: GermanCOMPETING GERMANIES: THE FREIE DEUTSCHE BUEHNE AND THE DEUTSCHES THEATER IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, 1938-1965 ROBERT VINCENT KELZ Dissertation under the direction of Professor Meike G. Werner Based on extensive archival ...
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(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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(2012-03-28)Department: GermanMy project addresses the representation of dance, dance-like, and pedestrian movement within the urban space in German literature around 1900. The dynamic cosmopolitan centers of Berlin and Paris not only attracted authors ...
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(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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(2013-12-15)Department: GermanThe depiction of the orient in the German literature during the Enlightenment and the Romantic period is unsurpassed in terms of its diversity. Intercultural communication and the representation of multicultural societies ...
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(2023-11-24)Department: GermanMy dissertation is a cross-disciplinary study of the Lustmord discourse from the late 19th century to the present that addresses questions of sexual violence, gender, and subjectivity through the framework of abject hegemony ...
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(2017-08-03)Department: GermanAt the beginning of the 21st century, new adaptations of classical plays appear to serve as a means of cultural criticism for minority writers in Germany as well as in the US. In contrast to other scholars who have defined ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: GermanStories are powerful. And even among stories, the enduring nature of some artworks is especially potent. Tolkien’s Rings is one example. Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen is another. This dissertation examines three artists ...
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(2018-04-11)Department: GermanGERMAN False Dichotomies: Echoes and Foresight in Works by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Hugo Wolf Andrea Weatherman Kikkert Dissertation under the direction of Professor Barbara Hahn Inspired by the Apollonian and ...
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(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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(2022-11-09)Department: GermanGerman[Ink]: Tattooing in 20th- And 21st-Century German Culture investigates how the practice of tattooing participated in processes of social transition in the wake of moments of perceived cultural rupture in Germany after ...
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(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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(2016-03-30)Department: GermanThe development of Ausländer’s poetic identity is tracked by analyzing a distinctly Romantic aesthetic in her oeuvre. These aesthetics are placed into historical and literary context by examining the influence of other ...
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(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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(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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(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 ...