Sökning: "contemporary German literature"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden contemporary German literature.
1. Der E-Mail-Roman : Zur Medialisierung des Erzählens in der zeitgenössischen deutsch- und englischsprachigen Literatur
Sammanfattning : It has often been remarked that over the last two decades e-mails have become increasingly integrated into the novel and have thus reshaped not only its structure but also its plots. A number of scholars and critics have called for extensive scientific research into the new genre, which they refer to as the ‘E-Mail-Novel’. LÄS MER
2. Wechselwirkungen : Geschlecht, Nation und Autorschaft in Werk und Wirken Amalie von Helvigs, geb. von Imhoff
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the interactions between concepts of gender, nation and authorship in the work of the German writer Amalie von Helvig, née Imhoff (1776–1831). With her biography shaped by mobility, and political and cultural changes, Helvig is particularly suitable for examining the importance of gender and nationality as well as network contacts for the work and influence of women writers around 1800. LÄS MER
3. Praktiken im Zwischenraum : Transitorisches Schreiben bei Katja Lange-Müller
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes works by the contemporary German author Katja Lange-Müller, focusing on their representations of borders and in-between spaces. Thus, the thesis offers a new perspective on Lange-Müller’s work, which, in the few previous studies, has mainly been interpreted within the context of ‘subversive writing’ in the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s. LÄS MER
4. Das Phantastische als Erzählstrategie in vier zeitgenössischen Romanen
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation investigates the use of the fantastic and its functions in contemporary prose, the initial hypothesis being that the fantastic is not historically exhausted, but continues to be productive. The major part of this study consists of a close reading of four novels printed between 1995 and 2001: Marie Hermanson’s Värddjuret (1995), Majgull Axelsson’s Aprilhäxan (1997), Karen Duve’s Regenroman (1999) and Elfriede Kern’s Schwarze Lämmer (2001). LÄS MER
5. Totalität und Ganzes versus Ausschnitt und Detail : Normbewahrung und Normveränderung im deutschsprachigen roman- und literaturtheoretischen Diskurs der 60er Jahre
Sammanfattning : This study is a thematic-descriptive investigation of the reproduction and transformation of norms in the theoretical discourse on the novel during the 1960s. Primary literature consists of articles and essays published in West German literary and cultural journals 1959-1967. LÄS MER
