Browsing Germanic Studies (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin."
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...