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Viennese Feuilleton During The Early 1920s: Description And Analysis Of Bertha Pauli's Biographical Sketches As Contributions To A Literary Genre, Ruth Kirsten Seppi
Viennese Feuilleton During The Early 1920s: Description And Analysis Of Bertha Pauli's Biographical Sketches As Contributions To A Literary Genre, Ruth Kirsten Seppi
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Bertha Pauli belongs to a class of writers (women) who are often overlooked, writing in a style (feuilleton) that is under-recognized for its literary value. Her writings have never been systematically analyzed before despite their volume and prominence in the Vienna of the 1920s. The first half of this thesis deals with the form of feuilleton, establishing a context in which to study Pauli’s works. The second half describes the political content of Pauli’s biographical feuilletons and demonstrates her skill as a persuasive writer. Feuilletons were a popular form of journalistic writing from the eighteenth century up until the Second …
Malwida Von Meysenbug's Memoirs Of An Idealist. Translation Of Memoiren Einer Idealistin, Monte Gardiner
Malwida Von Meysenbug's Memoirs Of An Idealist. Translation Of Memoiren Einer Idealistin, Monte Gardiner
Theses and Dissertations
The following translation is the first full length rendering of Malwida von Meysenbug's two-volume autobiography Memoiren einer Idealistin/Eine Reise nach Ostende into English. Meysenbug, who boasts ties to Nietzsche, Wagner, Herzen, and Saffi, was forerunner to a long line of female social democrats. She was an eyewitness to the tumultuous political events surrounding the German Revolution of 1848, and is remembered as a pioneer in education and gender issues. Meysenbug's memoirs depict nineteenth-century Europe in a dynamic state of transformation. This is a time of opposition and contradiction, when emerging philosophies and political movements vie for power with existing structures. …
Inszenierungen Einer Frau: Die Rollen, Werke Und Einschätzungen Der Franziska Gräfin Zu Reventlow, Julie K. Smith
Inszenierungen Einer Frau: Die Rollen, Werke Und Einschätzungen Der Franziska Gräfin Zu Reventlow, Julie K. Smith
Undergraduate Honors Theses
It is possible to stage a woman such as Franziska Gräfin/countess zu Reventlow in a myriad of characters and figures. Her richness on adventures and on her literary handling provides many possibilities of interpretation. Reventlow liked to stage herself and often, with varying degrees of bourgeois outrage or enthusiasm as a result. This self-staging as well as her foreign productions testify of a complex system of identity finding and definition of reality. On the one hand, she was admired by many as the fulfillment of their dreams or a symbol of an era. On the other hand, she experimented with …