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German and Scandinavian Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)This dissertation project is the first comprehensive analysis of Saša Stanišić. It transcends the valid, but restricting focus on migration in his works by tracing a common narrative strategy that spans all his writing. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)In my dissertation, I examine water—watery environments, fluid materialities, bodies of water—in literature and environmental theory. I argue that literary texts offer creative and imaginative ways to engage with environmental ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)In his essay Urfascism, Umberto Eco outlines the various ideological traits that he perceives to be the basic “familial resemblances” of fascism – one of these traits being “the natural fear of difference”. In acknowledgement ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)This thesis seeks to explore how authors with disability create knowledge about the experience of disability that differs from cultural perceptions of disability. This thesis also utilizes autofictional narratives as a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)This thesis explores the representation and testimony of trauma in the medieval Brennu-Njáls saga. Beginning with an outline of contemporary trauma studies, this thesis examines the repercussions narratives of social trauma. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)This thesis examines representations of female android subjectivities across three successive texts and media corresponding with three time periods: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story Der Sandmann (1816), Ernst Lubitsch’s silent ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Fräulein Else has often been juxtaposed with Freud’s Bruchstücke einer Hysterie-Analyse, and both can be read as an endeavour to ‘give voice’ to the hysteric through representation. This ...
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The Poetics of Affirmative Fatalism: Life, Death, and Meaning-Making in Goethe, Nietzsche, and Hesse (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The fundamental role that tragedy has played in the development of European philosophy and, by extension, psychology, has in part been due to its inextricability from an understanding of human life, facilitating its many ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The question of whether or not music can be considered a universal language, or even a language at all, has been asked for centuries—and indeed, it is still being addressed in the 21st century. I return to this question ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)DISSERTATION ABSTRACT Stephanie Fritsch Chapman Doctor of Philosophy German and Scandinavian June 2017 Title: Grillparzer, the Enlightener: Displaced Paternity in Grillparzer’s Works It is my intention ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)My dissertation brings together prose texts and poetry by four writers and poets, who published in German language at the beginning of the twentieth century: Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Franz Kafka (1883-1924), ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This thesis analyzes three works of the GDR dramatist Heiner Müller: his early prose poem Orpheus gepflügt, his learning play Mauser, and his late piece Verkommenes Ufer Medeamaterial Landschaft mit Argonauten. It demonstrates ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)This dissertation deals with current political immigration debates, the conversations about the philosophical concept of recognition, and intercultural encounters in contemporary German literature. By reading contemporary ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This work reopens the question of Nietzsche’s relationship to Early German Romanticism through critical readings of moments of enchantment in the writings of Novalis. It unveils the seemingly conciliatory gestures of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This thesis examines selected poems from the German author Bertolt Brecht. It critically investigates the claim that expressionist art can be held responsible for opening the door to fascism in Germany. It will place ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This thesis analyzes the relationship between German fairy tales and Ecocriticism by examining the similarities and differences in depictions of nature in the tales published by the Brothers Grimm in 1857 and tales written ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Kleist's work is often read within the context of his Kant Crisis. My thesis will follow in that tradition and give a close reading of Kleist's novella Michael Kohlhaas within the context of Kantian morality in Kritik der ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Although Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the most widely-read poets in the world and there are mountains of secondary literature on his poetry, his prose works are not given nearly so much attention. The present study is a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is known today as one of the most influential German Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, The Star of Redemption, has earned him a reputation as a challenging ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Representations of the reasons and actions of terrorists have appeared in German literature tracing back to the age of Sturm und Drang of the 18th century, most notably in Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas and Friedrich ...
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