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German literature and education for conscientization
… a critical pedagogical framework to teaching German literature to Maltese adolescents at Sixth Form level - through the combination of critical content and pedagogy, as advocated by the critical pedagogists themselves. This critical approach to teaching will thus serve not only to teach …
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The Magician in Medieval German Literature
"""The Magician in Medieval German Literature"" is an exploration of a number of issues related to magic and learning in vernacular German fiction from the Middle Ages. A close reading of medieval German narratives reveals that since magic was labeled demonic and unchristian by early Church …
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Radical enlightenment in German literature 1771-1811
… society, yet its complexity and impact on literature are not often fully understood. The values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood as well as the rise of the roles of reason, science, and tolerance are products of the European Enlightenment, but the Enlightenment has become a villain …
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Catastrophe and Identity in Post-War German Literature.
… purpose of this study is to examine selected German literature dealing with issues of history and identity in light of the catastrophic reshaping of society after World War II and reunification. The research process will involve an examination of selected authors and their works that are most …
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval German Literature
… such as Der Heiligen Leben, and in Latin and German versions of the Legenda Aurea. The medieval fable collections, like the hagiographic anthologies, present a diverse image of Jews. While the Avianus and the Anonymous Neveleti collections contain a group of fables whose epimyths presented …
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Visions of Dystopia in German Literature, 1913-1957
The following study investigates German dystopian literature. Until now, such literature has been subsumed under the much broader and poorly defined utopian genre. As a result, German dystopianism has not yet been identified as a coherent cultural phenomenon. A primary aim of the project is …
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Memory on the move: transnational travel in post-1989 German literature
Contemporary German literature after 1989 has become increasingly transnational and transcultural, given its numerous portrayals of travel, particularly in exploring traumatic family pasts. The transitional years of 1989/90, known as the Wende, have arguably resulted in greater mobility and …
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The Treatment of Wallenstein in German Literature of The Twentieth Century
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Criticism of the 'Zeitgeist' in Pre-Naturalistic German Literature, 1860-1880
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Renegotiating history: representations of the family in post-1989 German literature
… productive coping mechanisms developed in German literature after 1989. In artistic representation, family marks the site where the GDR’s dissolution and new post-1989 beginnings are negotiated. I draw on the concepts of agency, memory, and space to show how the historical transformation in …
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Toward a transnational, intersubjective concept of home in recent German literature
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Toward a transnational, intersubjective concept of home in recent German literature
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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'melitto-Logia' the Mythology of the Bee in Eighteenth-Century German Literature
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The Ecological and the ecoGothic in German Literature and Culture (1885-1930)
… the human and nonhuman are represented in German literature and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on the emerging literary discourse on the ecoGothic, it argues that writers during this period of literary modernism draw upon the Gothic as a mode which …
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Between Heimat and Fremde: New Configurations of Happiness in Contemporary German Literature and Film
… representations of happiness in recent German literature and film. The interpretations focus on how happiness is negotiated in the context of home and travel, of Heimat and Fremde, in order to understand happiness, not only insofar as it contributes to “the good life”, but also as an …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
<p>My dissertation analyzes the representation of Germans as victims of the Third Reich and the Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no longer were two states that could each blame the other as the heir of National Socialism and this past had to be renegotiated. The …
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Critical Climates: <i>Stimmung</i>, Voice and Mythopoesis in German Literature from 1950–1989
… relation to the concurrent re-emergence of the German aesthetic concept of <em>Stimmung</em>. At once referring to atmosphere, milieu, mood, disposition and harmony, while carrying along its root <em>Stimme</em>, or voice, this dissertation shows how <em>Stimmung</em> informed a literary …
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