Browsing Germanic Studies (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 history and internal politics of Ireland's Jewish community in their international Jewish context (1881-1914)
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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 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 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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...