Browsing Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Graduate Theses by Title
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Berlin in Transit(ion)
(2010-09-27)This study establishes how rail transportation systems and their filmic and literary representations form and inform culture and identity, particularly in the new German capital and by extension its new Berlin Republic. ... -
Between Heimat and Fremde: New Configurations of Happiness in Contemporary German Literature and Film
(2013-06-04)This thesis investigates 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 ... -
Die Detektivfunktion in "Berlin Alexanderplatz" - eine erzähltheoretische Analyse der Ver- und Enthüllungsstrategien in Alfred Döblins Roman.
(2009-08-17)This thesis analyses the function of the detective in Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz. I argue that the modernist metropolis Berlin challenges the way in which crimes are solved by complicating the process of identifying ... -
Eine Poetik Der Mutterschaft: Maternitätsbilder Bei Else Lasker-Schüler Und Marie Luise Kaschnitz
(2012-04-13)Motherhood is a contemporary topic that affects the majority of women in Germany, and yet the experiences and struggles of working mothers often remain taboo or are in conflict with social conventions and established ... -
The Evolving Role of Music in Theodor Storm's Novellas
(2015-04-24)The texts of Theodor Storm (1817-88) engage with the role of the artist and works of art in society during the latter half of the nineteenth century. While the role of painting and writing has already been analyzed in this ... -
Exploring Urban Spaces in the Young Imagination: Untersuchungen Zur Großstadt in Der Kinder- Und Jugendliteratur Nach 2000
(2012-09-08)Exploring Urban Spaces in the Young Imagination makes the case for taking seriously children's and young adult fiction as a topic worthy of scholarly analysis beyond a purely didactic focus. The recent explosion of interest ... -
Heimat Im Spannungsfeld Globalisierung: Studien Zu Zeitgenössischen Heimatfilmen Und Heimattexten
(2009-09-23)This thesis explores the representation of Heimat in contemporary German novels and films by authors and directors born in the 1960s and 1970s within the context of globalisation. The following texts and films are examined: ... -
Imagen y pliegue: en torno a una teoría de la cultura en "Paradiso" de José Lezama Lima
(2010-12-08)Estudio de la teoría de la cultura en la novela Paradiso (1966) del escritor José Lezama Lima en relación a las menciones a obras de pintura, escultura, arte-objeto, arquitectura y música, así como a los aspectos claves ... -
Ökologische Weltbilder in den Werken Adalbert Stifters - Einheitserfahrung und Herrschaftswille
(2015-07-29)It is an undeniable fact that Adalbert Stifter paid detailed attention to his natural surroundings. Yet in the 1980s and 90s Stifter research focused on the author’s use of language: scholars endeavoured to emancipate the ... -
Reise An Den “Gedächtnisort” Polen in Romanen Zeitgenössischer Deutscher Autorinnen
(2009-04-22)This thesis explores the significance of the journey to Poland in contemporary German literature by women. The texts are Bronjas Erbe (2001) by Beate Rygiert, Himmelskörper (2003) by Tanja Dückers, Pawels Briefe (1999) by ... -
Tiersymbole Im Realismus. Die Schwarze Spinne, der Schimmelreiter Und Effi Briest Als Beispiele der Chiffrierten Wirklichkeit des 19. Jahrhunderts
(2008-09-15)This thesis analyses the role of animal symbolism as a reflection on the zeitgeist of the 19th century. The three works Die schwarze Spinne (1842) by Jeremias Gotthelf, Der Schimmelreiter (1888) by Theodor Storm and Effi ... -
Unter Dem Deckmantel Von Ich Und Er: Stefan Zweig Im Vergleich Zu Henry Adams. Autobiographie als Geschichtsschreibung oder Geschichtsschreibung als Autobiographie?
(2011-08-29)Stefan Zweig had an extraordinary gift for mirroring the complexity of humankind and the human mind, and was undoubtedly one of the most translated authors in the 1930s, but he is still considered a “poor cousin” in the ... -
Where the Body touches the Spirit: the Role of Imagination in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s 'Emile: or On Education' and Christoph Martin Wieland’s 'Geschichte des Agathon'
(2012-10-15)This dissertation offers a re-evaluation of the role of the imagination in Jean- Jacques Rousseau’s 'Emile: or On Education' (1762) and Christoph Martin Wieland’s 'Geschichte des Agathon' (1794). My central claim is that ... -
Wilhelm Busch: The Art of Letting Off Steam Through Symbolic Inversion
(2013-04-19)In the aftermath of the failed revolution of 1848, which had been sparked by demands for democracy and constitutional reform, Germany’s princes reluctantly introduced new freedoms regarding print and the right to assembly. ...