Browsing Germanic Studies (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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Glück in the narratives of Jörg Wickram
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2001)In this thesis I want to consider the concept of glück, the German equivalent of Fortuna, in the narratives of the sixteenth century author Jörg Wickram. I will focus on two major themes in Wickram's representation of ... -
The Moon among Stars and The Throne in the Forest : Image and formula in the 'Nibelungenlied' and the 'Ramayana'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2002)The point of reference in earlier comparative studies of epic featuring either the medieval German Nibelungenlied or the ancient Indian Ramayana as one component of the comparison has been narrative content, narrative ... -
The fear and trembling of Malte Laurids Brigge
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2003)This thesis attempts to clear a space for a >transcendentalist< reading of Rainer Maria Rilke's Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) by querying the >immanentism< of much modern Malte-scholarship. In Chapter ... -
...ohne Maaß veränderlich' : Novalis, women and writing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2003)This thesis re-examines the treatment of the feminine and of the female literary subject in the works of Hardenberg/Novalis. It contends that, whilst Hardenberg did not approach these themes in a manner wholly revolutionary ... -
The invisible sublime : theories of art in Carl Einstein's later writings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2004)This study is a contribution to research on Carl Einstein (1885-1940), German-Jewish writer, critic and historian of art. It concentrates on Carl Einstein’s later work, from Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, his contribution ... -
René Schickele, Alsace and the question of cultural identity : a study of Hans im Schnakenloch and Das Erbe am Rhein
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2004)My thesis entitled, 'Rene Schickele, Alsace and the Question of Cultural Identity. A Study of Hans in Schnakenloch and Das Erbe am Rhein' is a comparative investigation into issues of politics and cultural identity in ... -
Modern intersections of Utopian imagination and gender discourse with special reference to texts by Hauptmann and Wedekind
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2005)Gerhart Hauptmann's novel Die Insel der grossen Mutter oder das Wunder von lie des Dames together with its paralipomena, and Frank Wedekind's incomplete and fragmentary Die grosse Liebe together with the published novella ... -
Divinity, disease, and death : an analysis of theological concepts of suffering in the bible and their reflection in selected medieval Latin and Middle High German texts in the High Middle ages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2006)This thesis focuses on religious ideas associated with suffering, caused by disease or injury, in the High Middle Ages. The condition of death, although frequently excluded from other studies, is included here as its ... -
The wanderer motif in nineteenth century German literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2007)The following study is conceived as a survey of the wanderer motif in 19th century German literature. The interpretive method used is a modified version of New Historicism, a method described in detail in the Introduction. ... -
Meine mir unbekannte herkunft : German identity and history in the works of W. G. Sebald, Botho Strauss and Peter Handke
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2008)This thesis analyses the work of W. G. Sebald in comparison with two other major German writers of his generation, Botho Strauß and Peter Handke. It compares Sebald's novel Austerlitz with Strauß's novel Der junge Mann and ... -
Religion in contemporary German-language theatre and drama
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2009)It is the contention of this thesis that religion plays a major role in a number of significant examples of contemporary German-language theatre and drama, but that it has largely been neglected by the secondary literature, ... -
Autobiographical progression : Christa Wolf's Nachdenken über Christa T., Kindheitsmuster and Ein Tag im Jahr
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2009)Christa Wolf's Nachdenken über Christa T., Kindheitsmuster and Ein Tag im Jahr constitute a significant contribution to the field of women's autobiographical writing in their in-depth questioning of autobiographical ... -
Mediated immediacy : published diaries of World War II as media of war memory in East and West Germany 1945-1990
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2009)This study explores the specific role played by published diaries in the negotiation and renegotiation of public war memories in East and West Germany from 1945 to re-unification. It does so by asking which war diaries ... -
Mündigkeit in language learner narrative
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2009)The thesis takes as its starting point Immanuel Kant’s essay of 1784 ‘An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment’ and by careful re-definition of one of the key terms from this essay, Mundigkeit, (commonly translated ... -
Childness and the writing of the German past : a study of the narrative functions of tropes of childhood in German literature 1990-2001
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2010)The thesis examines the narrative functions of tropes of childhood in a selection of post-reunification German novels for adults. The methodology is based on a practice of close textual analysis, focusing particularly on ... -
Raum-Zeit des Terrors - Struktur und Inszenierung des Terrorismus und seine Darstellungen im Film
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2011)This thesis investigates whether terrorism has a filmic form or structure and if this cinematic structure corresponds to the staging and production of terrorism. Furthermore, it explores the extent to which the cinematographic ... -
Performing Bürgerlichkeit : the German bourgeoisie and contemporary theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2012)This dissertation will investigate Bürgertum and Bürgerlichkeit and their relevance to the work of three contemporary German theatre directors; Michael Thalheimer, Thomas Ostermeier and René Pollesch. While the concept of ... -
Politics of cross-cultural reading : three case studies (Rabindranath Tagore, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Dario Fo)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2012)The aim of this thesis is to develop a multifaceted model by which one can engage with cross-cultural acts of reading in a meaningful way and to provide a sample of quite diverse works of world literature in translation ... -
Modern fools : an errant journey from the Quixotic to the Kafkaesque
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2013)The work of Cervantes and Kafka would appear to have little basis for comparison on initial inspection. However, by means of a very close reading of, and dialogue between, Cervantes' Don Quijote and Kafka's Das Urteil and ... -
The history and internal politics of Ireland's Jewish community in their international Jewish context (1881-1914)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2015)