Germanic Studies (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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)