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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Germanic studies"”.
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had …
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
… native Britonnic populations to the transplanted Germanic groups that had migrated to Britain in the post-Roman fifth century. In modern scholarship, early modern interest in the Anglo-Saxon past has been primarily ascribed to Protestant polemicists who sought evidence that the ancient English …
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"Pasts With Futures: Temporality, Subjectivity And Postcommunism In Contemporary German Literature By Herta MüLler, Zsuzsa BàNk And TeréZia Mora"
This dissertation analyzes future-oriented narrative features distinguishing German literature about European communism and its legacies. Set against landscapes marked by Soviet occupation and Ceauşescu's communist dictatorship in Romania (Müller) and against the 1956 Hungarian revolution, eastern …
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Friedrich Schlegel and the Romantic Iconic Turn
My dissertation project examines the rediscovery of the medieval devotional image and the Byzantine iconic tradition in German Romanticism. Tracing the contours and political implications of a Romantic iconic turn in the aesthetics of Friedrich Schlegel and the painting of Caspar David Friedrich, …
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IN SEARCH OF ADEQUATE FAITH: RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM IN GERMAN LETTERS (1750-1800)
The following dissertation, “In Search of Adequate Faith: Religious Skepticism in German Letters (1750–1800),” is an interdisciplinary study exploring the religious writings of Klopstock, Lessing, and Novalis. During the mid- to late-eighteenth century the struggle to articulate a distinctly modern …