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Teaching Culture In German: Standards, Perspectives, Resources, Alexander Lukanich

Dissertations and Theses

Americans face a serious challenge today: the need to become more competent in the languages and cultures of the rest of the world. Technology has brought nations closer together. International trade has grown to the creation of a global economy. Americans have greater contact with the cultures of other nations and encounter growing diversity within their own borders. In spite of these demands, Americans remain largely unable to speak other languages, or understand other cultures. Cultural instruction must play an increasingly important role in education. Foreign language teachers must teach culture as a regular and prominent part of their foreign …

In Praise Of Templates, Rachel Huener

Rachael Huener

No abstract provided.

Mental Illness As Cultural Problem With Examples From Modern Austrian Literature, Geoffrey Howes

ICS Fellow Lectures

Mental illness is not just a technical problem of psychology or public health: it is a cultural problem. Words such as "crazy," "nuts," ''wacko," "psycho," "mad," or "insane" reflect serious ambiguity about mental illness. This ambiguity about mental illness, embedded in Western culture, proves stronger than scientific and medical enlightenment. Because some notion of reason is so central to our notions of humanity and the self, perceived violations of reason are even more threatening than crossings of racial, cultural, and gender boundaries. We keep our own fear of mental illness at bay by constantly invoking it in jest and consigning …

Hocus Focus: Mose Allison At The Bird, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

Ibsen's Peer Gynt: Explication And Reception, Caralee Kristine Angell

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the content and reception of Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Chapter I begins with a summary of Ibsen's life and influences, placing Ibsen and his plays into a historical context. Chapter II is a detailed explication of .Peer Gynt, which illustrates the correlation between Ibsen's biography and Peer's life, the extensive use of Nordic folklore and the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Hegel. These issues and ideas are examined in order to create a theory of Ibsen's intended message to the public. In chapter III the immediate reception of Peer Gynt in Scandinavia is discussed, as well as the …

Die Ratsmaedschen Laufen Einem Herzog In Die Arme, Helene Böhlau

Prose Fiction

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Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Culture and Theory

Conley, Verena Andermatt, ed. Rethinking Technologies by Laurence M. Porter

Leitch, Vincent B. Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism by Merry M. Pawlowski

French Studies

Bersani, Leo and Ulysse Dutoit. Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais by Thomas Trezise

Boldt-Irons, Leslie Anne. On Bataille: Critical Essays by Walter A. Strauss

Deleuze, Gilles. Negotiations. Trans. Martin Joughin by Charles J. Stivale

Fisher, Dominique D. Staging of Language and Language(s) of the Stage: Mallarmé's poëme critique and Artaud's poetry-minus-text by Maryse Fauvel

Goodall, Jane. Artaud and the Gnostic Drama by Claudine G. Fisher

Lydon, Mary. Skirting the Issue: Essays …

Ideology, Family Policy, Production, And (Re)Education: Literary Treatment Of Abortion In The Gdr Of The Early 1980s, Heinz Bulmahn

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The decision by the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe of placing restrictions on the right to an abortion will profoundly affect German women's right to choose. This decision is a culmination of efforts to errode the right to choose for West as well as East German women. In the former GDR, even though liberal abortion laws allowed women access to free abortions, for ideological reasons, the government devised policies that discouraged abortions as a means of birth control. This policy becomes particularly apparent in the early 1980s when the East German government, confronted with a declining birth rate, faced the dilemma …

Narrative And Simultaneity: Benjamin's Image Of Proust, Louis Simon

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

We can better understand Proust's approach to literary activity in A la recherche du temps perdu and Walter Benjamin's reading of the novel in his essay "The Image of Proust" by recognizing how the experience and concept of simultaneity, as opposed to linearity or narrative progression, underlies these texts. Though Proust's novel represents a linear narrative, the writer's activity, which Benjamin characterizes as "the attempt to charge an entire lifetime with the utmost awareness," engages a supralinear dimension of lived experience that binds literary activity to the present moment. Readings of the Benjamin-Proust relationship that focus on an exclusively linear …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 3, Don Yoder, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Paul R. Wieand, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Herbert H. Beck, Edna Eby Heller, Vincent R. Tortora, Frances Lichten

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Two Worlds in the Dutch Country
• Belsnickel Lore
• Carpet-Rag Parties
• Quilting Traditions in the Dutch Country
• Lititz
• Lititz Specialties
• Amish Funerals
• Pennsylvania Redware
• Scratch-Carved Easter Eggs
• Fractur From the Hostetter Collection

Thirteenth Annual Bibliography, 1997 (Contemporary German Literature Collection), Hannelore M. Lützeler

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.

On Ecclesiastical Endorsement At Byu, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

The Beat Generation, Agnieszka Taborska, Paula Hunter, Steven L. Jobe, James O. Barnhill, Helen Lee, Joshua Waldman, Nishira Fitzgerald, Brendan Meilman, Ismael Lawall, Zach Pitt-Smith, Kevin Walker, Tamara Carroll, Rhon Porter, Maleese Schick, Rhody Azcueta, Kevin Umbricht, Matthew Curry, Jee-Eun Kim, Michelle Lee, Marisa Nealon, Karelle Levi, Hilary Riley, Simon Potter, Antoinette Le Vaillant

Programs

Program for the tenth annual RISD Cabaret held in the Waterman Building, top floor coinciding "with the fiftieth anniversary of the year when Allen Ginsburg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac first met and started a movement which changed the face of postwar American and influenced the 1960s as well as the subculture of the '70s and '80s." Program, poster and tickets designed by Antoinette le Vaillant.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 2, Nancy Kettering Frye, Jean-Paul Benowitz, Amos Long Jr., John A. Milbauer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• "An Uncommon Woman" in the Age of the Common Man: The Life and Times of Sarah Righter Major
• Maintaining Mennonite Identity: The Old Order Church in Pennsylvania and Virginia
• The End of an Era: The Last One-Room Public Schools in Lebanon County
• Pennsylvania Extended in the Cherokee Country: A Study of Log Architecture

New Poems, Günter Kunert

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

New poems. Translated by Leonard Olschner

‘As Writ Myn Auctour Called Lollius’: Divine And Authorial Omnipotence In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Richard Utz

Richard Utz

No abstract provided.

Man In The Holocene [Der Mensch Erscheint Im Holozän], Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

The Babel Guide to fiction in translation reviews and lists novels and short stories available in English. This chapter discusses Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene.

Concrete [Beton], Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

The Babel Guide to fiction in translation reviews and lists novels and short stories available in English. This chapter discusses Thomas Bernhardt's Concrete.

Casanova's Homecoming [Casanovas Heimkehr], Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

The Babel Guide to fiction in translation reviews and lists novels and short stories available in English. This chapter discusses Arthur Schnitzler's Casanova's Homecoming.

Aladdin's Problem [Aladins Problem], Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

The Babel Guide to fiction in translation reviews and lists novels and short stories available in English. This chapter discusses Ernst Jünger's Aladdin's Problem.

Verbunden Und Gebunden. Mutter-Tochter Beziehungen In Sechs Romanen Der Siebziger Und Achtziger Jahre. (Book Review), Kathrin M. Bower

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

In Verbunden und gebunden, Katharina Aulls analyzes the figuration of mother-daughter relationships in six quasi-autobiographical novels by women writers. The play on words in Aulls's title anticipates the tensions that characterize the mother-daughter relationships in these novels, tensions that are not only the stuff of fiction, but also of concrete experience in the sociology of the mother-daughter dyad.

Classicism And Romanticism (Fall 1997) (Whitman College), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

This course was taught by Robert Tobin at Whitman College. Professor Tobin worked at Whitman for 18 years as associate dean of the faculty and chair of the humanities, and was named Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities.

"Classicism and Romanticism attempts to provide an overview of the European literature in translation that arose in the so-called classical and romantic periods. Very roughly speaking, one could say that Classical literature was written in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while Romantic literature was written in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."

Im Nonnengarten : An Anthology Of German Women's Writing 1850-1907, Michelle Stott James

Resources

The female-authored stories collected in this anthology originated during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a time that witnessed some of the most significant changes ever experienced in European society: the rise of industrialism and the decline of the agrarian state; the decline of the aristocracy; a growing awareness of the plight of the underclasses; the new ideas of thinkers such as Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche and Freud, whose theories revolutionized the way humans understood themselves and their relationship to their environment; the beginnings of the Women's Movement and the accompanying gains in mobility, political rights, and educational and professional …

Das Märchen Vom Leid, Elsa Bernstein

Prose Fiction

No abstract provided.

Kirchweih, Anna Croissant-Rust

Prose Fiction

No abstract provided.

Zwei Liebespaare, Elisabeth Heinroth

Prose Fiction

No abstract provided.

Die Schlange, Aloisia Kirschner

Prose Fiction

No abstract provided.

Vom Leuchtkäfer, Der Kein Mensch Werden Wollte, Isolde Kurz

Prose Fiction

No abstract provided.

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Germany's Pursuit Of Power In The Twentieth Century, Joshua Hayes

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Germany faces a "German Problem" because of history and ideology. Branded an aggressor nation because of its role in the two World Wars, Germany is still attempting to succeed in a competitive, anarchic world similar to that described by Hobbes' State of Nature. I illustrate this international environment through game theory's Prisoner's Dilemma. Viewed in this manner, Germany feared defection by neighboring states and its actions to protect itself helped cause the First World War. Contemporary Germany has learned from its past experiences and has a new anti-aggression stance which competes with an old Faustian German ethos. I shall argue …

Between Ideologies And A Hard Place: Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Utopian Pragmatist Poetics, Jonathan Monroe

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The marginalization of poetry in North American culture makes it difficult to appreciate fully on this side of the Atlantic the importance of Hans Magnus Enzensberger's literary and cultural contributions over the past four decades. Working against familiar cultural encodings that would align poetry uncritically with the "personal" and prose with the "political," his oeuvre makes a strong case for poetry and critical prose as vitally complementary activities. In his 1991 collection of poems, Zukunftsmusik (Future Music) and his 1993 prose collection, Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia, Enzensberger renews his longstanding commitment to "the process / of becoming …