Browsing Germanic Studies (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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Theatre Lindenhof as a contemporary form of German regional Volkstheater
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2017)This thesis studies Theater Lindenhof, a Volkstheater company in the Schwabisch-Alb, Baden-Wiirttemberg, Germany. Lindenhof performs from its own theatre in the small village of Melchingen and tours in Baden-Wurttemberg ... -
Schutzraum Familie? Strukturen und Typologien von Bespitzelungsprozessen innerhalb von Künstlerfamilien in der DDR
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2018)This thesis investigates the interdisciplinary topic of surveillance within intellectual families in the former GDR by the secret police [Staatssicherheit], primarily focussing on those families in which one partner or ... -
The role of Albania and Kosovo in the 'South-Eastern Turn' in contemporary German language literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2020)The so-called Eastern Turn in contemporary German-language literature references writers from Eastern Europe and former Yugoslavia who have settled in the German-speaking countries since the fall of Communism , as defined ... -
Remixing Transmedia for Cultural Heritage Sites: The Rhetoric, Creative Practice, and Evaluation of Digital Narratives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2020)In the digital age, cultural heritage tourists need to invest a lot of time and cognitive effort into hunting and gathering cross-media content about a destination and then connecting it into a cohesive sense of a place. ... -
Translingual Literary Practice: Literatures in Contact
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2020)Abstract: A Translingual Literary Practice: Literatures in Contact The aim of this thesis is to explore literary translingualism. The translingual is a term that is becoming widespread in academia, but is still in need of ... -
No Man's Land: Mythology of War, Masculinity and Homeland in Greek and Serbian Aftermath Cinema
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2021)This thesis explores the dynamic between cultural mythology and trauma in aftermath cinema. After a society has experienced a significant disturbance, it is common to reckon with the stories that tell of its beliefs, ... -
The Morbid Subject: A New Morphology for Analysis of the Phenomenon of Metamorphosis in Literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2021)"The Morbid Subject: A New Morphology for Analysis of the Phenomenon of Metamorphosis in Literature" is the author s attempt to formulate a cohesive and structured morphology for the phenomenon of metamorphosis as it appears ... -
Omnium Gatherum: The Ecological Fictions of Ransmayr, Tokarczuk and Flanagan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2023)This thesis presents a comparative reading of novels by three prominent contemporary writers who engage with ecological themes. Christoph Ransmayr, Olga Tokarczuk and Richard Flanagan are all well-known writers both ... -
Aesthetics of Timbre in late Eighteenth-Century and Early Romantic German Scientific, Philosophical and Music-related Literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2023)Until recently timbre has generally been considered as first emerging as a Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century concept. This interdisciplinary thesis explores the existence of timbre as a concept during the period spanning ... -
Spatial Reckonings: Mapping the Raumproblem in Modern Mathematics and German Modernism, 1890-1933
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2024)Despite the often-celebrated ascent of 'interdisciplinarity' within academic research, in perhaps every setting, mathematics and the arts are still viewed as unrelated disciplines with divergent origins, influences and ...