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Feeling Doctrine: Religious Meanings Of Emotion In Sixteenth-Century German Literature, Georgia Anna Leeper Dec 2014

Feeling Doctrine: Religious Meanings Of Emotion In Sixteenth-Century German Literature, Georgia Anna Leeper

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores the intersections of emotion and Protestant theology in late-16th-century German literature. The project demonstrates the availability of even secular texts to confessional readings through the analysis of representations of emotions. Post-Reformation texts practice an emotional exemplarity that highlights the effects - including the spiritual effects - which emotional experiences have on the individual. I argue that narrative representations of emotions at this moment reflect anxieties about the nebulous nature of faith, and its central role in Protestant salvation. Close readings of widely-read texts such as the 1587 Faustbuch, Melusine, and Hans Sach's Judith: ein Comedi, among others …


Die Raumsemantik In Ferdinand Von Saars Schloß Kostenitz Und Adalbert Stifters Brigitta - Ein Vergleich, Anna-Rebecca Nowicki May 2014

Die Raumsemantik In Ferdinand Von Saars Schloß Kostenitz Und Adalbert Stifters Brigitta - Ein Vergleich, Anna-Rebecca Nowicki

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Ästhetische Grenzgänge. Das Weiblich Erhabene In Schillers 'Jungfrau Von Orleans' Und Kleists 'Penthesilea', Miriam Zeh May 2014

Ästhetische Grenzgänge. Das Weiblich Erhabene In Schillers 'Jungfrau Von Orleans' Und Kleists 'Penthesilea', Miriam Zeh

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Twenty-Eighth Annual Bibliography 2014 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), Brian Vetruba, Paul Michael Lützeler, Katharina Böhm Jan 2014

Twenty-Eighth Annual Bibliography 2014 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), Brian Vetruba, Paul Michael Lützeler, Katharina Böhm

University Libraries Publications

The 28th bibliography for 560 volumes added to Washington University Libraries' Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2014, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals mainly from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A small number of items published in Italy and Luxembourg were also added. This Collection serves as the research arm for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature's Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature. A bibliography of items added the previous year is compiled each year by Washington University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in …