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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Literature, Germanic"”.
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Reflections on War, Guilt, and Responsibility: Aspects of Post-War German and Japanese Drama (1945-1970)
Formally, these plays range from expressionistic to absurdist, from realistic-documentary to grotesque, from satiric-demonstrative to loosely suggestive techniques. There seems to be a stronger didactic/moralizing element in the German examples than in their less direct, more ambiguous Japanese …
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Memory and Destruction: A Psychiatric Approach to Understanding Literary Depictions of Air Raids in World War II
… that this dissertation explores the bombing literature and their authors. Contrary to Sebald's assertions, the air raids have indeed been a topic of German literature and several narratives are discussed in the thesis (Nossack, Borchert, Ledig, Kluge, Kempowski, Forte). In addition, …
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"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
The diverse strands and varied emphases of the rich hagiographic tradition inherited from the Middle Ages are used to express startlingly different world views in these three autobiographical narratives. The examination of the hagiographic discourse reveals the dialectical tensions characteristic …
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Heroes and Kings in the Legend of Hrolf Kraki
… the context of medieval historiography, didactic literature, heroic lays, and courtly fiction has supported the thesis that the saga of Hrolfr kraki can be read as a negative King's Mirror, presented not in the traditional dialogic form but rather as a narrative. The saga can be understood as a …
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval German Literature
… the representations of Jews in medieval German literature, modern interpretive models require multiple hermeneutic categories."
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"Palimpsests on German Reunification: Functions of Theodor Fontane's Novels and Poetry in Guenter Grass' ""Too Far Afield"""
To date, this dissertation is the first detailed examination of the intertextuality in Grass' Too Far Afield. The study applies literary theories on intertextuality to determine the function and significance of references. At the same time, it integrates the aspect of reception, since the reader's …
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21st-Century Yiddishism: The Dialectic of Czernowitz and Yiddish Pedagogical Discourse of the Present
Drawing on sociolinguistics and cultural studies, this dissertation compares the manner that critical debates about teaching Yiddish in the last century both describe and prescribe the language's continuing resources of cultural and ideological resilience. It contextualizes the language's …
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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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"Georg Wickrams ""Von Guten Und Boesen Nachbarn"": Eine Literarische Utopie"
Wickram geht mit seinem Werk somit inhaltlich als auch literarisch neue Wege. Er schafft mit dem Nachbarn-Roman eine Utopie, in der sich das neuerwachsene burgerliche Selbstverstandnis darstellt.
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The Transformation of Civic Identity and Local Patriotism in Hamburg, 1790 to 1815
At the same time the cataclysmic international events stimulated the emergence of a new local identity--Hanseatic solidarity. The city's need to defend its sovereignty and neutrality during the wars of the French Revolution and later Napoleonic conquest prompted Hamburg to unite with the cites of …
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"The ""Expositio in Cantica Canticorum"" of Williram of Ebersberg: An edition and translation with forward and backward concordances to the German text"
"Williram's von Ebersberg ""Expositio in Cantica Canticorum,"" is an important, though somewhat neglected, early Middle High German manuscript, containing commentaries in poetic Latin and prose German. As a literary text, it provides in encapsulated form a fairly comprehensive overview of the …
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Character Change and Stability in Three Novellas by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: A Study of Symbols
This dissertation examines the theme of character change and stability in three of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's novellas, Jurg Jenatsch (1874), Der Heilige (1879), and Die Hochzeit des Monchs (1883). The characters exhibiting change, Jurg, Thomas, and Astorre, are compared and contrasted with those …
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German Literary Travelogues Around the Turn of the Century, 1890-1914
The development of non-fictional travel literature (the literary travelogue) at the turn of the century (1890-1914) shows a cyclical pattern. After a short-lived revival of interest from 1890 to 1892, resulting from the emergence of Impressionism, the younger generation of writers did not practice …
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The German Essay of The Eighteenth Century: An Ecology
The German essay of the eighteenth century shows us a very different view of the age from that presented in the standard handbooks and literary histories. Its emergence in the eighteenth century is itself most revealing of the age. The social and cultural climate of the century in general and the …
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Narrator Intervention in the Works of Wolfram Von Eschenbach (Germany)
By examining Wolfram's narrative technique using the criteria offered by the study of medieval rhetoric, this dissertation is able to present Wolfram as a conscious author. Following the organization of the Poetria Nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, one is able to categorize in a logical manner the …
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Gottsched Und Seine Nachwelt Im Achtzehnten Jahrhundert: Versuch Einer Ideengeschichtlichen Ubersicht. (German Text);
Since the late eighteenth century, the reputation of Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766) has suffered as a result of the hostile criticism initiated by Lessing and his followers. This study, written in German, is a contribution to the re-evaluation of Gottsched and his accomplishment in …
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Die Reinkarnation Des Lesers Als Autor: Ein Rezeptions Geschichtlicher Versuch Ueber Den Einfluss Der Altindischen Literatur Auf Deutsche Schriftsteller Um 1900. (German Text)
… the relationship between classical Indian literature and modern German literature. Almost all the criticism surveyed has been an analysis of the influence of the sacred texts of India on German literature. The result was a refusal to acknowledge the writing of the Germans as a creative …
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Das Bild Des Schriftstellers in Der Ddr-Gegenwartsprosa. (German Text);
In the 1970's and 80's, GDR literature has seen a plethora of prose works in which the main character is a writer. This study analyzes a broad selection of these works, establishing common themes and motifs which characterize the image of the author in current GDR literature. In addition, …
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Die Gesellschaftskritik Im Prosawerk Hermann Sudermanns. (German Text)
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"Paul Brann Und Sein ""marionettentheater Muenchner Kuenstler"". (german Text)"
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