Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives, 2013 Wayne State University
Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives, Juliana Mamou
Wayne State University Dissertations
REMEMBERING EAST GERMAN CHILDHOOD IN
POST-WENDE LIFE NARRATIVES
by JULIANA MAMOU, May 2013
This dissertation explores how East German childhood is remembered in four exemplary auto/biographical texts that appeared in the early years of the twenty-first century. In Jana Hensel's Zonenkinder, Claudia Rusch's Meine freie deutsche Jugend, Jana Simon's Denn wir sind anders, and Robert Ide's Geteilte Träume. The depiction of childhood memories is moreover contextualized in the radical social, political and economic changes after the Wende and their effects on former East Germans as individuals and as a group. Written by authors who constitute a generational cohort who were …
Mama’S Boy Is Daddy’S Girl: Eccentric Gender Performance In Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's Heinrich Stillings Jugend, Jünglingsjahre, Wanderschaft Und Häusliches Leben, 2013 South Dakota State University
Mama’S Boy Is Daddy’S Girl: Eccentric Gender Performance In Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's Heinrich Stillings Jugend, Jünglingsjahre, Wanderschaft Und Häusliches Leben, Eckhard Rolz
School of American and Global Studies Faculty Publications with a Focus on Modern Languages and Global Studies
In Heinrich Stillings Jugend, Jünglingsjahre, Wanderschaft und häusliches Leben the reader is confronted with ungendered boys, crossing of gender boundaries, and reversal of gender roles. A son becomes his father’s substitute wife, morphs into his own mother, and has to metaphorically give birth to his own self. As a result of his gender performance he is ill prepared for life and becomes a complete failure. This paper explores the lack of Heinrich’s gendering during his formative years, his performance of gender for his father, and the father’s scandalous exploitation of his son.
The Good Corporation? Google's Medievalism And Why It Matters, 2013 Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
The Good Corporation? Google's Medievalism And Why It Matters, Richard Utz
Richard Utz
This essay investigates Google's nostalgic romanticism as a form of medievalism and demonstrates how one of Google's products, the n-gram viewer, has changed what we know about the history of the term and mindset of "medievalism."
Retroflex Variation And Methodological Issues: A Reply To Simonsen, Moen, And Cowen (2008), 2013 University of Oslo
Retroflex Variation And Methodological Issues: A Reply To Simonsen, Moen, And Cowen (2008), Janne Bondi Johannessen, Bert Vaux
Bert Vaux
We argue that the differences in the articulation of Norwegian retroflex consonants described by Simonsen, Moen, and Cowen (2008) as individual variation may instead be due to factors such as individual and dialectal background, rather than variation across a single variety. Our main argument is based on existing dialect literature and speech corpus data, which show that the phonemes involved in the retroflexion process are not present in the same linguistic contexts in all dialects. SMC’s experimental stimuli and conditions include linguistic contexts which do not necessarily induce retroflexion naturally, and therefore cannot be relied upon to provide an accurate …
(Marxian-Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics & Bioracism, 2013 Macalester College
(Marxian-Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics & Bioracism, A. Kiarina Kordela
A. Kiarina Kordela
The full issue can be found at http://re-press.org/books/penumbra.
Factories On The Magic Carpet: Heimat, Globalization, And The ‘Yellow Peril’, 2013 Bryn Mawr College
Factories On The Magic Carpet: Heimat, Globalization, And The ‘Yellow Peril’, Qinna Shen
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Paradox Of Amnesia: Tondelli's Un Weekend Postmoderno, 2013 Syracuse University
The Paradox Of Amnesia: Tondelli's Un Weekend Postmoderno, Stefano Giannini
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship
Tondelli opens his Un weekend postmoderno. Cronache dagli anni Ottanta declaring an intention opposite to the display of amnesia. In the long table of contents of his book, he writes down everything, in an excruciating streaming of details, so that the table of content becomes an exhaustive index of names and ideas. Yet, hidden within the hundreds of analytical snapshots, one of its many characters mentions the importance of dissimulation. Dissimulation, according to Tondelli, hides what is known, to protect the dissimulator and to mask the truth. Also, amnesia is a voluntary practice that can be enacted in order to …
Twenty-Seventh Annual Bibliography, Supplement, 2013 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), 2013 Washington University in St. Louis
Twenty-Seventh Annual Bibliography, Supplement, 2013 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), Brian W. Vetruba, Paul Michael Lützeler, Katharina Böhm
Annual Bibliography of the Special Contemporary German Literature Collection
Bibliography of contemporary German literature volumes added the previous year to Washington University Libraries' Contemporary German Literature Collection. These acquisitions generally include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This Collection serves as the research arm for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature's Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature. This bibliography is compiled by Washington University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in cooperation with the University Libraries. See also Contemporary German Literature Collection and Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature.
Twenty-Seventh Annual Bibliography, 2013 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), 2013 Washington University in St. Louis
Twenty-Seventh Annual Bibliography, 2013 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), Maryška Suda, Paul Michael Lützeler, Wiebke Schuldt, Anna-Dorothea Klopf
Annual Bibliography of the Special Contemporary German Literature Collection
Bibliography of contemporary German literature volumes added the previous year to Washington University Libraries' Contemporary German Literature Collection. These acquisitions generally include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This Collection serves as the research arm for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature's Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature. This bibliography is compiled by Washington University's Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in cooperation with the University Libraries. See also Contemporary German Literature Collection and Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature.
Collected Literary Works, 2013 Brigham Young University
(Marxian-Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics & Bioracism, 2013 Macalester College
(Marxian-Psychoanalytic) Biopolitics & Bioracism, A. Kiarina Kordela
German Studies Faculty Publications
The full issue can be found at http://re-press.org/books/penumbra.
The Conflicted Artist- An Analysis Of The Aesthetics Of German Idealism In E.T.A. Hoffmann's Artist, 2013 University of South Carolina
The Conflicted Artist- An Analysis Of The Aesthetics Of German Idealism In E.T.A. Hoffmann's Artist, Leigh Hannah Buches
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis will analyze the characteristics of the artist as an individual who attempts to attain an aesthetic Ideal in which he believes he will find fulfillment. In the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, most notably Das Fräulein von Scuderi and Rat Krespel, the artists René Cardillac and Rat Krespel not only fall short of this ideal, but also limit themselves to the point that they cannot advance further without causing destruction in their own lives. The failure of these artists is not due to their imperfections, but rather to their strict adherence to German Idealist principles, which limit the artist …
Claire Legendre’S Portrait Of Hypermodern Society, 2013 Iowa State University
Claire Legendre’S Portrait Of Hypermodern Society, Michèle A. Schaal
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Theorists from various academic disciplines believe Western society has entered an age of excess and exacerbated modernity: all areas of life are affected by a will to be or do more at an always faster pace. This article focuses on French writer Claire Legendre’s literary translation of hypermodernity, especially in her narratives published over the past decade. First, it examines her portrayal of contemporary individuality, marked by all sorts of excesses and especially by the imperative to make the most of oneself and one’s life. This ideal being in itself excessive, her characters resort to extreme behaviors. However, they never …
La Quête D'Identité À Travers La Quête De L'Autre Dans Le Cinéma De Cédric Klapisch, 2013 University of South Carolina
La Quête D'Identité À Travers La Quête De L'Autre Dans Le Cinéma De Cédric Klapisch, Jade Marie Mathieu
Theses and Dissertations
Malgré une présence extrêmement populaire dans le cinéma français depuis la sortie de son premier film, Riens du Tout, en 1992, Cédric Klapisch est un cinéaste en général peu étudié. Pourtant, si ses comédies séduisent le public, c'est avant tout par leur côté réaliste, avec lequel de nombreux spectateurs peuvent s'identifier. Dans ses premiers films, Klapisch semble avant tout s'adresser aux jeunes en quête d'eux-mêmes, grâce à L'Auberge Espagnole, qui reste son film le plus célèbre, ou à la comédie Le Péril Jeune. Pourtant, au fil de son évolution, le cinéaste met un point d'honneur à intégrer cet esprit de …
Obscurity In Medieval Texts, 2012 Wesleyan University
Obscurity In Medieval Texts, Lucie Doležalová, Jeff Rider, Alessandro Zironi
Jeff Rider
Modern readers of medieval texts often find them obscure. Some of this obscurity is accidental and inevitable due to the historical and cultural distance that separates modern readers from medieval authors, but medieval readers and authors also appear to have simply had a higher tolerance for textual obscurity than we do and even to have viewed obscurity as desirable and a virtue. They did not believe that obscurity could ever be eradicated and were not scared of the indescribable, indivisible, and ungraspable; they accepted reality as complex and ultimately unintelligible. Obscurity was not simply a riddle to be solved. It …
Eco-Eschbach – Sustainability In The Science Fiction Of Andreas Eschbach, 2012 Illinois Wesleyan University
Eco-Eschbach – Sustainability In The Science Fiction Of Andreas Eschbach, Sonja Fritzsche
Sonja Fritzsche
No abstract provided.
Book Review: "Obscene Fantasies:" Elfriede Jelinek’S Generic Perversions By Brenda Bethman, 2012 Macalester College
Book Review: "Obscene Fantasies:" Elfriede Jelinek’S Generic Perversions By Brenda Bethman, Brigetta Abel
Brigetta Abel
No abstract provided.
Homeland Earth And The Other: 2001, Solaris, And Eolomea In Dialogue, 2012 Illinois Wesleyan University
Homeland Earth And The Other: 2001, Solaris, And Eolomea In Dialogue, Sonja Fritzsche
Sonja Fritzsche
No abstract provided.
"Andre Umstände": Erection As Self-Assertion In Kleist's "Die Marquise Von O...", 2012 Utah Valley University
"Andre Umstände": Erection As Self-Assertion In Kleist's "Die Marquise Von O...", Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
No abstract provided.
In Search Of Real Fathers: Plenzdorf's Die Neuen Leiden Des Jungen W. And Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind, 2012 Brigham Young University - Provo
In Search Of Real Fathers: Plenzdorf's Die Neuen Leiden Des Jungen W. And Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind, Michelle Schwoebel
Theses and Dissertations
Plenzdorf's works, one written before the fall of socialism in the German Democratic Republic (hereafter referred to as the DDR), and one after, portray relationships between fathers and sons, which act as a metaphor to express a personal perspective of the state, revealing that the DDR was neither as repressive or as omnipresent for the average citizen as outsiders are often given to believe. The father, or Übervater, a figure deeply rooted in the German consciousness, is represented by the state and proves itself as an entity which gives the protagonists in both works little notice, despite their best efforts …