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Full-Text Articles in German Literature
Homemade Language, Conservative Fro-Yo, And Sci-Fi Sloths: How Speculative Migration Fiction Confronts The Ends Of Worlds By Challenging The Nation-State, Zoe R. Scheuerman
Homemade Language, Conservative Fro-Yo, And Sci-Fi Sloths: How Speculative Migration Fiction Confronts The Ends Of Worlds By Challenging The Nation-State, Zoe R. Scheuerman
English Honors Projects
This English literature thesis project explores an emerging, genre-defying body of fiction which I call “speculative migration fiction.” Speculative migration fiction imagines how ongoing global developments like climate change, technological development, and war may shape future migrations. Drawing on Benedict Anderson’s conception of national culture, Wendy Brown’s theory of the border, and Caroline Levine’s understanding of literary form, as well as close readings from Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, and 2 A.M. in Little America by Ken Kalfus, I argue that transnational migrations move toward becoming postnational migrations as migrants evade border …
"Mich Beschäftigen Vor Allem Dinge, Die Sich In Meiner Umgebung Abspielen": Konstruktionen Des Privaten Und Des Öffentlichen In Der Literatur Der Brd Und Der Ddr, Christina E. Getaz
"Mich Beschäftigen Vor Allem Dinge, Die Sich In Meiner Umgebung Abspielen": Konstruktionen Des Privaten Und Des Öffentlichen In Der Literatur Der Brd Und Der Ddr, Christina E. Getaz
German and Russian Studies Honors Projects
Common knowledge assumes that capitalism and socialism structured life differently with regards to what was public and private. This paper critically investigates this notion, focusing not on property, but on the realm of ideas and personal experiences. With a basis in historical and theoretical notions of the public and private spheres as conceptualized by Hannah Arendt, I analyze critical works by Jurek Becker and Heinrich Böll written in the two German states in the 1970s. Focusing on the ways in which these works depict an entanglement of the public and the private, I show how the East- and West-German works …
The Biopolitical Unconscious: Not-All Persons Are Political, Ross G. Shields
The Biopolitical Unconscious: Not-All Persons Are Political, Ross G. Shields
Media and Cultural Studies Honors Projects
It is a tenet of post-structuralist theory that discursive series fail in their attempts to constitute themselves as totalities. A system can fail in two distinct ways—from Kant’s dynamic and mathematic failures of reason, to Jacques Lacan’s equation of the two failures of language with the two failures (male and female) of sex. Biopolitical theory offers the most recent account of failure and collapse, now on the geopolitical scale. Given that the biopolitical subject too is sexed, this thesis asks the question: How does biopolitics fail? Franz Kafka’s aborted novels offer a premonition to a possible answer.
Das Verschwinden Des Erzählers: Formen Und Signifikanz Der Erlebten Rede In Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften, Tara Hottman
Das Verschwinden Des Erzählers: Formen Und Signifikanz Der Erlebten Rede In Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften, Tara Hottman
German and Russian Studies Honors Projects
Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit dem narratologischen Phänomen der erlebten Rede auseinander. Ich konzentriere mich hauptsächlich auf Die Wahlverwandtschaften und ziehe einen Vergleich mit Goethes früherem Roman Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre und Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary. Dabei geht es um die spezifische Frage der Objektivität der Wiedergabe fremder Rede durch den Erzähler. Ist es möglich, dass ein von einem Menschen gemachtes Kunstwerk auch als ein objektives Faktum gelten kann? In Die Wahlverwandtschaften benutzt der Erzähler die erlebte Rede als ein Mittel zu verschwinden. Er lässt den Leser allein mit seinen Figuren, sodass der Leser dem Geschehen als Faktum begegnen muss.