RSS 1.0Germanic Studies (Theses and Dissertations)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
...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 ... -
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 ...
