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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"German Studies"”.
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Towards a functional definition of German studies: New Zealand and the international context
… Foreign languages disciplines, including German Studies, have been forced to adapt the programmes offered to reflect the diversification of career options and the trend towards the study of vocational or professional subjects. This thesis explores the diverse, interrelated and changing …
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Teaching and learning German language and culture in higher education in Britain:problems, challenges and didactical implications. A case study
… the institutionalised teaching and learning of German language and culture in the context of German Studies in British Higher Education (HE). This investigation focuses on teaching and learning experiences in one department of German Studies in the UK, which is the micro-context of the present …
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Multiple Allegiances, Conflicting Attributions of Honor, and the Resulting Moral Dilemmas In the Nibelungenlied
<p>The Nibelungenlied has offered German Studies a unique example of medieval literature that is highly valuable for teaching Middle High German as well as German literary history. The Nibelungenlied has many interesting literary qualities that over the centuries have generated an abundance of …
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Folk Fiction: Yiddish and the Negotiation of Literary Legacy in Germany after 1945
… the language took on newsignificance in German culture. Whether it be as a symbol of proletarian solidarity in East German theater or as part of West German literary engagement with American Jewish culture, Yiddish shows up all over postwar German literature and performance. Building on …
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Transmitting Culture and Language - A New German Cultural Institute for Washington D.C.
… know the culture and language of my home country Germany, and living here makes it easy to learn the culture and language of the United States. But for one who does not have the opportunity to live abroad learning the culture and language of a foreign country is a challenge. Germany is relatively …
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Pleasures and Powers of Affective Disorientation: Iconoclastic Ambivalence and Polyvalence in the NDW
… pop-musical genre in the Federal Republic of Germany. The dissertation focuses on the initial recordings of three key women-led bands, whose successes indicate the arc of the larger movement: Hans-A-Plast, Ideal and Nena. Through a series of historically situated and theoretically inflected …
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Relocation and residential reasoning in very old age -Housing, health and everyday life
… in two Western European countries (Sweden and Germany). With a focus on person-environment relations concerning housing and health, predictors and consequences of relocation were explored. Also, residential decision-making was explored with focus on how very old people reason about their home …
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Medizinische Effektivität und Kosteneffektivität des Einsatzes der HPV-DNA-Diagnostik als Primärscreeningverfahren in der Zervixkarzinomfrüherkennung in Deutschland : ein entscheidungsanalytischer Ansatz
… for cervical cancer is currently discussed in Germany. Decisions should be based on a systematic evaluation of the long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of HPV based primary screening. Research questions: What is the long-term clinical effectiveness (reduction in lifetime risk of …
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Double bind: female subjectivity in selected works by Elfriede Jelinek and Anne Duden
… Duden. At the time of writing, few full-length studies which engage with this concept in texts by German women writers have been published. A clear preference is still demonstrated within the field of German Studies, either for subjectivity to appear as one theme among a number of others, or for …
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Analysing Contemporary German-Language Literature through a Translingual-Intermedial Framework
… and Latin American writers living and working in Germany. This dissertation seeks to fill this gap through an application of translingual analytical paradigms to three Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking writers: José F. A. Oliver (born in Hausach to Spanish Gastarbeiter parents in 1961), Bettina …
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Contested Memories: The Role of Victim Rivalry in Shaping Heritage and Memory at the Concentration Camps of Dachau and Ulm – Oberer Kuhberg
… case study approach, examining the former German concentration camps of Dachau and Ulm-Oberer Kuhberg, both Southern Germany, selected on the basis of their representativeness of the memory culture discourse around victim rivalry. The thesis applies a methodology composed of critical …
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Helene Stöcker, Weimar Germany and Prophylactics: An Investigation Into the Context and Effects of the Reichsgesestz zur Bekämpfung Geschlechtskrankheiten
<p>This paper investigates German gender studies in the Weimar Era. It looks at a specific law, passed regarding contraceptive devices. It seeks to show how women were presented with a guise of freedom, while living in a truly paternalistic society.</p>
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Flucht, Vertreibung, Heimatverlust – eine deutsche Leidenserfahrung und ein schwieriger Balanceakt
… dichotomy as it exists in modern day Germany with regard to the depiction of the experience of Germans expelled from former German lands in eastern Europe. The issues surrounding this dichotomy involve transmission of history, national identity as well as memory and remembering of …
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Das Schmunzeln im Spiegel (kolonialer) Erinnerung:parodierte nationale Selbstbilder in Christian Krachts Imperium und Daniel Kehlmanns Die Vermessung der Welt
… novel Measuring the World explore facets of German identity against the backdrop of aspects of German colonial history. In my thesis, I argue that with their satirical representations of the German Self in the encounter with the (colonial) Other, the authors reflect critically on the …
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Erinnern ist Frauensache? - Frauen als "Erinnerungsspeicher" in Tanja Dückers' Roman "Himmelskörper"
… 30th 1945 caused the death of nine thousand German refugees, the greatest number of deaths caused by a single sinking ship in maritime history. For a long time, this catastrophe was considered a forgotten' topic, due to the complicated nature of remembering German wartime suffering without …
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Der Verlorene: Trans-Generational Trauma, Guilt And Shame
The public and private discourse about Germany's past under Hitler has recently undergone a significant shift. Instead of focusing on Germans as perpetrators, the last two decades have been dominated by discussions about Germans as innocent civilians victimized by the victorious Allies during the …
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Identität bei Herta Müller: Schreiben als Mittel der Selbstbehauptung
… — the Banat Swabian, the Romanian, and the German, Müller's identity is characterized by a lack of stability and continuity, and, consequently, by the absence of a center. Furthermore, since each of these subject positions is imposed upon her by others, and the construction of self-defined …
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The 'Uncanny' and The Android
The character of the android is found widely in film and literature. While she appears across the entire spectrum of genres, she most often makes her appearance in the uncanny text. This appearance is nearly always accompanied by some variation of the vision motif. Despite wide spread interest in …