Browsing by Subject "Germanic literature"
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Disruptive Organizers: Wild children in German realism (1850-1900)
(2020-05)This dissertation explores the intersection of childhood and wildness within the literary movement of German realism. The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the introduction of mandatory education and the consolidation ... -
Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the Formation of the "Mendelssohnian" Style
(2013)Fanny Hensel wrote much of Felix Mendelssohn's music. Or so goes the popular misconception. It is true that Felix did publish six of his sister's Lieder under his own name, in his Op. 8 and Op. 9, but there is no evidence ... -
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 ... -
Liberating Laughter: Dramatic satire and the German public sphere, 1790-1848
(2020-05)One of the most far-reaching consequences of the French Revolution was the spread of political debate. Across Europe, people of all sorts — not just princes, but peasants and peddlers as well— started talking politics. ... -
Psychologische Musik, Joseph Joachim, and the Search for a New Music Aesthetic in the 1850s
(2014)AbstractExploring two main lines of inquiry, this dissertation investigates the style and aesthetic of the music of Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) and its references to composers such as Brahms, Liszt, Schumann, and Beethoven. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
