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Germanic and Slavic Studies: Recent submissions
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Re-evaluating Communicative Language Teaching: Wittgenstein and Postmethod Pedagogy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)This thesis analyses some ways in which Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy can make a valuable contribution to the current re-evaluation of the concept of method within postmethod pedagogy. First, the emergence and ... -
Language Frequency Profiling of Written Texts by Students of German as a Foreign Language
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)The present work contributes to the ongoing discussion of the factors involved in perfecting foreign language learning through a close examination of vocabulary use. Motivated by Laufer’s (1991) argument that the use of ... -
„Gender fluidity“: Die Identitätskrise als Aufbrechen der Geschlechterrollen in Annemarie Schwarzenbachs 'Flucht nach oben'
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)The Swiss author Annemarie Schwarzenbach created literary figures that resist being classified according to a gender binary and heterosexual norm. She thereby, already in the 1930s, imagined something akin to the recent ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Learning German Vocabulary: An Investigation into Learners' Use of Vocabulary Learning Strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-19)This research is an empirical multiple-case study that is designed to explore adult individual learners’ vocabulary learning processes, and to examine their use of vocabulary learning strategies. It investigates the following ... -
Brave New World: The Correlation of Social Order and the Process of Literary Translation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-16)This comparative analysis of four different German-language versions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) shows the correlation between political and socio-cultural circumstances, as well as ideological differences, ... -
Soziokulturelle Theorie und Selbstdarstellung von Lernenden in einem interaktiven online L2 Lernkontext
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)Abstract This study in second language acquisition (SLA) investigates the influence of self-portrayal of language learners in an interactive online L2 learning environment from a social-interactionist research perspective. ... -
Isaak Babel's Image of the Humanized Jew in the Odesskie rasskazy
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)Abstract The Russia in which Isaak Babel (1894-1940) wrote was one of deep seated anti-Semitic philosophies and prejudices, a place of pogroms and segregation. Literature of this era painted the Jew as a villainous, ... -
Funktionen von Lachen in Gesprächen: eine konversationsanalytische Studie
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)This thesis looks at laughter in conversations in order to find out what functions laughter can fulfil. The data that are used for the analysis are conversations involving four different families and one or two researchers. ... -
Tor für Deutschland! Vergleichende Analyse von Fußball-Live-Reportagen 1974 und 2006
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-26)This thesis is a contribution to the research of media discourse. During the last decades the media landscape has changed dramatically. These changes have been especially evident in German TV programs and the rise of private ... -
Musikphilosophische Konzepte in Robert Schneiders Schlafes Bruder: Postmoderne Strukturen bei der Darstellung von Musik
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)This thesis analyses the novel Schlafes Bruder, written by the Austrian author Robert Schneider in 1992. The analysis focuses on the presentation of music throughout the work and specifically examines how different ... -
"Don Juan ist ein anderer" Peter Handkes Don Juan (erzählt von ihm selbst) in der literarischen Tradition des Don Juan-Stoffes
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)The figure of Don Juan with its numerous variations and adaptations has been widely discussed in secondary literature. However, one of the most recent adaptations of the character, Peter Handke’s novel Don Juan (erzählt ... -
Patrick Süskinds Der Kontrabass - Einsamkeit und Psychische Erkrankungen als Folge der Kommunikationslosigkeit in der modernen Gesellschaft
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-22)This thesis provides a psychological insight of the protagonist in Patrick Süskind’s monodrama Der Kontrabass in order to reveal his suffering from a contemporarily increasing psychical disease. This mental illness is ... -
Der Roman als Schlachtfeld der Islaminterpretationen. Die Funktion des Islam in Feridun Zaimoglus Leyla
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-19)Although modern Germany is a multicultural and multireligious society, a fact reflected by the growing number of works on the lives of migrants to Germany by authors from non-German backgrounds, it is still difficult to ... -
Bernhard Schlinks Roman The Reader im nordamerikanischen Holocaust-Diskurs
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-19)This master’s thesis deals with the reception of Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader (1997, original Der Vorleser 1995) in North America and its role in the North American Holocaust discourse. Two questions dominate the ... -
Anne-Thérèse de Lambert und Sophie von La Roche als Innovatorinnen der weiblichen Erziehungsdebatte im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-18)France played a leading role in the European Enlightenment, influencing other European countries in their thinking and development of philosophical ideas based on the emerging ideals of liberté, égalité and fraternité. ... -
A Literature of Conscience: Yevtushenko's Post-Stalin Poetry
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-04)The tradition of civic poetry occupies a unique place in the history of Russian literature. The civic poet (grazhdanskii poet) characteristically addresses socio-political issues and injustices relevant to the era in ... -
Mehrfache Migration: Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Mehrsprachigkeit, Lebenswelten und Identitätskonstruktion
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)The qualitative case study on which this thesis is based was designed to investigate the relationship between migration and identity construction of three young people who immigrated as children and adolescents, two of ...