Browsing Theses by Subject "German Literary Studies"
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Entwürfe selbstbestimmten Frauenlebens in Theodor Fontanes L’Adultera und Mathilde Möhring
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-25)Few authors in the second half of the nineteenth century wrote in such a decisive way on the subject of women as Theodor Fontane, who produced literary studies on women’s lives, determined both by others and by the women ... -
Realitätsverlust und Medienkonstitution: Thomas Glavinics Die Arbeit der Nacht (2006) als radikale Literarisierung Baudrillardscher Konzepte?
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)In this thesis I argue that Thomas Glavinic’s novel Die Arbeit der Nacht (Night Work) investigates existential themes of the human condition in a post-modern world. My analysis demonstrates that the novel can be understood ... -
Zwei Skandalstücke im Kontext von Antisemitismus: Thomas Bernhards Heldenplatz und Rainer Werner Fassbinders Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)In the 1980s Rainer Werner Fassbinders Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod (1976) and Thomas Bernhard’s Heldenplatz (1988) caused two of the biggest theatre scandals in the history of German-language literature, leading to ...