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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 ... -
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 ... -
Art, Cinema, and the Berlin School
This dissertation argues that the Berlin School (Berliner Schule)—the most important development in German cinema since the New German Cinema of the 1970s—explores the relation between cinema and traditional art genres. ... -
Beastly Specters: from Hubris to Hybridity in German Romanticism and Beyond
This dissertation project investigates narrative modes and strategies for writing about non-human animals that challenge the idea of a clear animal-human divide. Beginning with works from German Romanticism, the first half ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Invisible dangers : the Presentation of Modern Environmental Threats and the Anthropocene in Contemporary German Literature
This dissertation project examines how contemporary German literary texts depict modern environmental threats that are characteristic for the new age of the Anthropocene. Joining the larger conversation in environmental ... -
<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>, ... -
Kasper’s Theater: Avant-Garde and Propaganda Puppetry in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
Kasper’s Theater: Avant-Garde and Propaganda Puppetry in Early Twentieth-Century Germany is a research-driven study of how and why artists turned to puppetry during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Organized ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Mind-Crafting: Anticipatory Critique of Transhumanist Mind-Uploading in German High Modernist Novels
This dissertation explores the question of how German modernist novels anticipate and critique the transhumanist theory of mind-uploading in an attempt to avert binary thinking. German modernist novels simulate the mind ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Negotiating the German Public Sphere: Workers, Soldiers, and Women in Photobooks of Weimar Germany
This dissertation focuses on the intersection of non-fiction writing and visual culture, specifically on the montage of texts and photos as an approach to examine the changing public sphere in Weimar Germany. “Negotiating ... -
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 ... -
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 ...