Browsing by Department "German Studies"
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Fictions of Trauma: The Problem of Representation in Novels by East and Central European Women Writing in German
(2013)This dissertation focuses on the fictional narratives of Eastern and Central European women authors writing in German and explores the ways in which historical and political trauma shapes their approach to narrative. By ... -
Jacob Struggling With the Angel: Siegfried Lipiner, Gustav Mahler, and the Search For Aesthetic-Religious Redemption in Fin-de-siècle Vienna
(2011)This dissertation explores the meaning of art and religion in fin-de-siècle Vienna through the symphonies of the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and the philosophical and dramatic works of the poet Siegfried ... -
Putting Justice on Trial in Four Periods of German Literature: Case Studies (Jakob Wasserman, Arnold Zweig, Manfred Bieler, Thomas Brussig)
(2011)This dissertation explores arguments against legal and authoritarian structures as thematized by four works of fiction from distinct periods of German history: Jacob Wasserman's Der Fall Maurizius (the Weimar Republic), ... -
Schwarzsein, Weißsein, Deutschsein: Racial Narratives and Counter-discourses in German Film After 1950
(2012)This dissertation uses film to explore shifts in conceptions of race, cultural identity, and national belonging in Germany from the 1950s West Germany to contemporary reunified Germany. Through the analysis of several German ... -
Sympathy for the Devil: Volatile Masculinities in Recent German and American Literatures
(2011)This study investigates how an ambivalence surrounding men and masculinity has been expressed and exploited in Pop literature since the late 1980s, focusing on works by German-speaking authors Christian Kracht and Benjamin ... -
The Austrian Postwar Avant-Garde - Experimental Art on Paper and Celluloid: A Semiological Approach
(2012)The period following the Second World War in Austria represents a unique historical situation. On the one hand, strongly conservative and restaurative trends in politics, publications, media, and social life dominated the ... -
The Demands of Integration: Space, Place and Genre in Berlin
(2012)This dissertation argues that the metaphor of integration, which describes the incorporation of immigrants into the national body, functions as a way to exclude "Muslim" immigrants from German national identity, as these ... -
Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800
(2010)It is received wisdom that Britain and France played the leading role in overseas expansion in the eighteenth century while the German lands lacked both a central political authority and colonies of their own. We know from ...
