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Moral considerations in the works of Arthur Schnitzler
(1961)Out of the charming and dusty world of rococo Vienna, sweet melancholy and tired resignation, impressionism and moral relativism emerges the author and moral critic, Arthur Schnitzler. Himself a product of his times, he ... -
Kriemhild: demon-hero-woman
(1993)Kriemhild, the main character of the Nibelungenlied, provides an interesting transformation from a young girl afraid of a potentially tragic marriage into a mature woman commanding an army in her pursuit of revenge. The ... -
The existential grounding of death in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger
(1998)The present dissertation examines two of the most important yet overlooked precursors to Martin Heidegger's analytic of death in Sein und Zeit : Holderlin's unfinished drama Der Tod des Empedokles and Nietzsche's Also ... -
Höfisch-heroisch-Fragmentiert: körpergebundene Kommunikation im 'Nibelungenlied'
(1998)This study analyzes the different models of physicality together with the modes of non-verbal interaction related to these models in Nibelungenlied. In this epic, the bodies of the protagonists display characteristics which ... -
The reluctant witches in Benedikte Naubert's Neue Volksmährchen der Deutschen, 1789-1792
(1998)Benedikte Naubert (1756-1819) lived at a time of significant literary awakening and production in Germany. It was also a momentous time in European history. In spite of the promising renewal Enlightenment thinking held, ... -
Masken des Lebens, Gesichter des Todes: zum Verhältnis von Tod und Darstellung im erzählerischen Werk Arthur Schnitzlers
(1998)This dissertation explores modes of representations of death in selected narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. The introductory chapter sets the theoretical framework for all following textual analyses, drawing on Schnitzler's ... -
Hegelian aesthetics and the "dramatist" plays of Karl Gutzkow
(2002)My dissertation argues that Karl Gutzkow uses metadiscursive structures in his literary works to instruct his audience how to interpret literature. I claim that he develops this strategy through his reading of Hegel's ... -
Déjà vu, the sublime, and the uncanny: the route to self-overcoming of Hans Castorp's "Schnee" vision in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg
(2005)Critics have dealt extensively with Thomas Mann's Zauberberg in terms of literary technique, thematic elements, structural composition, literary influences, psychological and philosophical aspects, historical significance, ... -
Annexation Effects: Cultural Appropriation and the Politics of Place in Czech-German Films, 1930-1945
(2013-04-17)The dissertation maps various points of cultural transfer in Czech-German films of the 1930s and 1940s. Specifically, it examines the representation and performance of ethnicity and the layered connections between geographic ... -
<italic>Die Boten des Unglücks</italic>: Verortung der Sprache der Flüchtlinge im Werk von Jakob Wassermann, Franz Kafka, Emine Özdamar und Herta Müller
(2013-04-17)"Messengers of Ill Tidings: Situating the Speech of Refugees in the work of Jakob Wassermann, Franz Kafka, Emine Özdamar and Herta Müller"; draws on a line from a poem by Bertolt Brecht, <italic>Landscapes of Exile</italic>, ... -
Pure Violence on the Stage of Exception: Representations of Revolutions in Georg Büchner, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Heiner Müller, and Elfriede Jelinek
(2013-07-25)This dissertation examines pertinent issues of today's terrorism debate in frequently overlooked earlier representations of revolutionary and state violence. At the center of this debate is the state of exception through ... -
Veränderte Umwelt: Neue Leseweisen im Anthropozän
(2014-04-30)My dissertation, titled "Veränderte Umwelt: Neue Leseweisen im Anthropozän" ("Altered Environments: New Readings in the Anthropocene"), explores the role imagination plays in coming to terms with the Anthropocene, the new ... -
Preformations of the Amazonian: Strong Women in German Literature of the Early Enlightenment
The dissertation explores preformations of the Amazonian in German literature of the Early Enlightenment. Far prior to Heinrich von Kleist’s famous Amazonian drama Penthesilea (1808), Amazons and other strong female ... -
Stages of Inversion: Die verkehrte Welt in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Stages of Inversion: Die verkehrte Welt in Nineteenth-Century German Literature presents a literary ahistory of inverted subjectivity that runs parallel with, and at times contrary to, the historical consolidation of ... -
The Postsecular Traces of Transcendence in Contemporary German Literature
This dissertation focuses on texts written by four contemporary, German-speaking authors: W. G. Sebald’s Die Ringe des Saturn and Schwindel. Gefühle, Daniel Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt, Sybille Lewitscharoff’s ... -
Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature
“Moments of Rupture: Narratological Readings of Contemporary German Literature” explores the representation of disruptive moments in contemporary German novels using a narratological framework of analysis. Joining the ... -
W.G. Sebald and the Cinematic Imagination
W. G. Sebald's references to films, film directors, and actors pervade in both his critical essays and in his prose fictions. Although there are many different films, cinematic metaphors, and allusions to cinema throughout ... -
Accommodating the Nation: Hospitality and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
This dissertation investigates the ways nineteenth-century German literature imagines nationality by examining metaphors and structures of hospitality. This examination is twofold: it takes as its subject hospitality ... -
Critical Conditions: The Signature of the Wound in Franz Kafka's Shorter Fiction
This dissertation explores the significance of wounds in four short texts by Franz Kafka: "Ein Landarzt," "Das Urteil," Ein Bericht für eine Akademie," and "Prometheus." Rather than reduce the metaphor of the wound to ... -
Remodeling the Frauenzimmer: Women-Authored Spaces in German Literature from 1770-1820
"Remodeling the Frauenzimmer: Women-Authored Spaces in German Literature from 1770-1820" searches for a narrated space that could allow women authors to communicate with one another free from controlling forces exerted by ...