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Peasey, Jeanette Helga. "Public service broadcasting in transition : the example of West Germany." Thesis, University of Bath, 1990. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.256822.
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Hope, Jacquie. "Green trends in East Germany : critiques of modern industrial society in GDR literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357351.
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Hempen, Daniela. "The negotiation of gender and power in medieval German writings." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0005/NQ34531.pdf.
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Magerski, Christine 1969. "The constitution of the literary field in Germany after 1871 : Berlin modernism, literary criticism and the beginnings of the sociology of literature." Monash University, German Studies, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8724.
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Schaper, Benjamin. "Poetik und Politik der Lesbarkeit in der deutschen literatur." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8e1e8c05-c0f9-4dda-ad9b-b208ded2432b.
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In 1990, German literary critics agreed that the end of the Cold War should mark the end of politically committed post-war literature. The political caesura prompted a debate about the future of German literature during which the concept of 'readability' evolved as a contested issue. It was championed in particular by the author Matthias Politycki and the publishers Uwe Wittstock and Martin Hielscher. Ever since, 'readability' has remained a benchmark for authors and critics alike in the battle for value and success. The thesis will establish a theoretical basis for 'readability' that draws on narratology, the Aristotelian concept of 'mimesis', classical rhetoric, and the poetics of contemporary authors who explicitly engage with 'readability'. Discussion will centre on the novel since this genre has been the focus of debate ever since the novel gained prominence with the rise of the reading middle classes in the eighteenth century. An analysis of the historical role of 'readability' will demonstrate that the debate as it manifested itself around 1990 developed out of a specifically German tradition, in which authors and critics alike viewed it as potentially in conflict with true art. In 1990, German literary critics agreed that the end of the Cold War should mark the end of politically committed post-war literature. The political caesura prompted a debate about the future of German literature during which the concept of 'readability' evolved as a contested issue. It was championed in particular by the author Matthias Politycki and the publishers Uwe Wittstock and Martin Hielscher. Ever since, 'readability' has remained a benchmark for authors and critics alike in the battle for value and success. The thesis will establish a theoretical basis for 'readability' that draws on narratology, the Aristotelian concept of 'mimesis', classical rhetoric, and the poetics of contemporary authors who explicitly engage with 'readability'. Discussion will centre on the novel since this genre has been the focus of debate ever since the novel gained prominence with the rise of the reading middle classes in the eighteenth century. An analysis of the historical role of 'readability' will demonstrate that the debate as it manifested itself around 1990 developed out of a specifically German tradition, in which authors and critics alike viewed it as potentially in conflict with true art. The thesis will demonstrate that 'readability' is key to understanding the debates about German literature in an era of globalisation when readers are more attracted to works by foreign authors than to works by German ones. It will examine how writers such as Helmut Krausser, Daniel Kehlmann, and Thomas Glavinic have exploited the opportunities of the changed parameters by writing and promoting 'readable' books. It will further explore to what extent 'readability' has opened up new avenues even for authors like Felicitas Hoppe and Ulrike Draesner, who distrust the quest for 'readability'. The thesis will conclude with a reflection on the prospects for 'readability' in the current literary landscape in Germany.
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Stanek, Jennifer Marie. "Demystifying the Notion, “the West is better”: A German Oral History Project." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300726542.
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Franks, Carl. "From the Destruction of Memory to the Destruction of People : Social Movements and their Impact on Memory, Legitimacy and Mass Violence - A Comparative Study of the West German Student Movement and the Serbian "Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution"." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Hugo Valentin-centrum, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-324321.
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Challenges to the legitimacy of established collective memory can prove so inflammatory that mass violence, ethnic cleansing and even genocide have followed in their wake. However, if few doubt that the ethno-nationalist memory wars during the 1980s collapse of Yugoslavia contributed to the real wars and ethnic cleansing witnessed in the 1990s, no previous research has been able to explain why this is so. This paper pinpoints the determinant variable and causal link between attacks on memory and subsequent mass violence (or a lack thereof). It uses a theoretical model that ties together memory, legitimacy and power to compare the cases of West Germany’s 1968 student movement and Serbia’s 1986-1989 anti-bureaucratic revolution before establishing that the level of prior state repression is one factor that determines whether memory challenges will turn violent. The paper recommends further theory building over the permeable boundary that separates state and civil society, particularly in terms of how accessible state functions are to those social movements that seek to challenge and delegitimise memory.
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Schilling, René. ""Kriegshelden" : Deutungsmuster heroischer Männlichkeit in Deutschland 1813-1945 /." Paderborn : Schöningh, 2002. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e1t9-aa.
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Evans, Katherine A. "Die Selbstdarstellung des Staates durch die olympischen Spiele: München 1972 und Seoul 1988." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/277.
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This thesis examines the planning and organization of the Munich 1972 and Seoul 1988 Olympic Games with a specific focus on how the South Korean and West German governments attempted to use the Games to positively change their images abroad. Both countries attempted to distance themselves not only from their own war torn pasts, but also from their Communist counterparts, East Germany and North Korea. The West German government (and the Munich Olympic Committee) hoped to create a “peaceful” and “carefree atmosphere” that would directly counter images of Nazism, and the South Korean government (and the Seoul Olympic Committee) sought to use the Olympics to legitimize a military dictatorship and prove the country’s economic growth following the Korean War. By giving the Games so much importance, however, both governments transformed the Olympics into a flashpoint for international and domestic conflicts, and unforeseen events, such as the Black September terrorist attack, the South Korean democracy movement, and North Korea’s demands to co-host the Games, changed and defined the public images of both the Games and their host countries.
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Annas, Rolf. "Zur Darstellung Sudafrikas in der uberregionalen presse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Eine textwissenschaftliche Untersuchung." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49304.
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Rössig, Anike. "Juden und andere "Tunnelianer" : Gesellschaft und Literatur im Berliner "Sonntags-Verein" /." Heidelberg, Neckar : Winter, Carl, 2008. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0803/2008400172.html.
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Silicani, Christian. "Le roman d'aventure et le 'roman d'outre-mer' de langue allemande, de Charles Sealsfield à B. Traven." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA004/document.
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Il existe une abondance extraordinaire de récits de voyage et d'oeuvres de fiction en langue allemande focalisant l'outre-mer et en premier lieu les Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Ces textes écrits au cours du XIX et pendant la première moitié du XX siècle représentent un phénomène notable mais peu commenté qui se prête tout à fait à un traitement historique: ces écrits accompagnent, appuient, commentent et vilipendent la très forte émigration allemande vers les Amériques, notamment l'Amérique du Nord. Le présent travail s'attache à rendre compte du roman d'aventures outre-mer de langue allemande et ce faisant s'efforce de cerner ce qui fait la spécificité de la perspective allemande. Dans cette optique ont été retenues douze oeuvres composées par des auteurs germanophones aussi différents les uns des autres que les Allemands Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872), Karl May (1842-1912), Ernst Friedrich Löhndorff (1899-1976), L'Austro-Américain Karl Postl alias Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864), l'Autrichien Franz Kafka (1883-1924), le Germano-Mexicain B. Traven (1882-1969). Après un chapitre d'exposition traitant de l'horizon d'attente présent dans l'Allemagne du XIX siècle, onze chapitres sont consacrés à l'étude des romans sélectionnés. L'analyse de ces oeuvres permet de mettre en évidence quelques caractéristiques saillantes qui sont propres au genre tant au niveau de l'esthétique , de la logique, des thématiques et des schémas idéologiques qu'au niveau de l'organisation en affrontements axiologiques entre un univers de la rationalité et de la civilisation et un monde considéré comme relevant de la "sauvagerie". Sont aussi analysées la silhouette de l'aventurier littéraire, les différentes approches de l'altérité entre refus et attrait, la tentation récurrente de la transgression, l'inscription du récit dans un système de codes et de stéréotypes préexistantsThere are many German travel stories as well as works of fiction focusing on overseas territories, in the first place on the United States of America. These texts that were written in the course of the nineteenth century and during the first half of the twentieth century represent a noteworthy phenomenon that has been little commented on and lends itself well to a historical approach. Indeed, these pieces of writing accompany, comment on and vilify the German mass migration to the American continent, especially to North America. The present work attempts to account for the German adventure novel the plot of which takes place overseas. In so doing it tries to define the specificity of the German perspective. Twelve novels have been selected that were written by several german-speaking authors very different from one another: the German Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872), Karl May (1842-1912), Ernst Friedrich Löhndorff (1899-1976), the Austro-American Karl Postl aka Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864), The Austrian Franz Kafka (1883-1924), the Germano-Mexican B. Traven (1882-1969). Following an introductory chapter dealing with the horizon of aspirations in nineteenth-century Germany are eleven chapters each devoted to the study of one selected novel.The analysis of these works shows some striking features that belong to the genre either at the level of the aesthetics, logic, set of themes and ideological patterns or at the level of axiological confrontations between a rational, civilized world and the so-called "savageness". Other items in the study are the figure of the literary adventurer, the different approaches to the alterity phenomenon, the recurrent temptation of transgression, the insertion of the text in a pre-existent codes and stereotypes system
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Martens, Erika. "Ideology and literature : a study of society and literary criticism with special reference to the reception of Heinrich Böll during the 1970's." 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm377.pdf.
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Martens, Erika. "Ideology and literature : a study of society and literary criticism with special reference to the reception of Heinrich Boll during the 1970's / Erika Martens." 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18853.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 1988
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Martini, Allesandro. "Norms for the evaluation of literature focusing primarily on the Frankfurt School." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18637.
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Critical Theory, as posited by members of The Frankfurt School, was evaluated with the
objective of attaching an implied ethical dimension. This was discovered in their
privileging of a particular type of aesthetic, as evinced in their analysis of certain works
of autonomous High Modernism. This implied ethic, which is one based around the
concept of enlightenment as potential for emancipation, was then applied as a norm for
the evaluation of art. This ethic, however, does not seek to impose a particular reading on
(specifically) literary production: Rather, it seeks to impart the importance of a
commitment by the literary critic in the use of an ethically based norm, an ethic, what is
more, that is based and supported by a discussion of the concepts 'freedom' and
Enlightenment. Finally, with this ethic firmly established, the discussion then attempted
to distinguish between modernism and post-modernism, using this implied ethic as a
guide to separation.Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
M.A. (Theory of Literature)
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Kearney, James C. 1946. "Friedrichsburg by Friedrich Armand Strubberg : translated and annotated by James C. Kearney." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2221.
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Friedrich Armand Strubberg’s semi-autobiographical novel Friedrichsburg, published in Germany in 1867, is a fountain of information about the German settlements in the Hill Country of Texas established in the years 1844-1848 by a corporation of German noblemen. The noblemen safely ensconced in their comfortable estates in Germany attempted to live up to their responsibilities and supply the settlers with basic needs, but their efforts fell woefully short. In consequence, the immigrants often were thrown upon their own devices and compelled to live from what they could learn to grow or hunt in a new land with unfamiliar climate, plants, and animals. Many hundreds perished from disease, exposure, and malnutrition. But after a painful period, the German settlements took root and began to prosper; lending a Germanic stamp to the Hill Country area of Texas that persists to the present day.
In Friedrichsburg, the reader encounters many dramatic stories attendant to the foundation years of Fredericksburg, Texas, 1846/1847 when Friedrich Armand Strubberg, under the assumed name Dr. Schubbert, served as the first colonial director of the town. The situations are presented vividly and entertainingly, and although the book offers a romanticized and, in this sense, a sanitized version of the immigrants’ travails, I maintain that it contains historically accurate depictions of people and events that have been largely overlooked in other accounts of the period.
The dissertation offers the first complete translation of the novel. An introduction provides an overview of German immigration in Texas, a short biography of Friedrich Armand Strubberg, and a discussion of his place in literature about Texas published in Germany in the nineteenth century. Extensive endnotes document names and episodes as they appear in the text and distinguish between what is fact and what is fiction in the novel. A bibliography of works published about Texas in the nineteenth century is supplied as an appendix.text
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Chen, Hue-ching, and 陳慧卿. "Infanticide in society and literature- Example from China and Germany." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78157264822190527517.
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Logemann, Jan L. "Shaping affluent societies divergent paths to mass consumer society in West Germany and the United States during the postwar boom era /." 2007. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-2268/index.html.
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Dragomir, Adriana. "Communication and the Construction of the Ideal in the West." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42487.
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This dissertation examines the conceptualization of the ideal society in Western culture in relation to changes in communication modes. The utopian discourse is defined by a concern with the relationship between language and reality. I explore this concern as a reflection of the theoretical disposition invited by changes in communication modes, which are perceived as crises of representation.
Plato and Thomas More’s enlightened communities in the Republic and Utopia reflect comparable idealistic perspectives on education. In my view, this optimism stems from the social reality of growing literacies with the advent of the alphabet and printing, respectively. I contend that these writers are animated by an ethical impulse to teach their readers that language is representation. From the vantage point of this knowledge, each individual may employ language symbolically in order to create and perpetuate a moral and spiritual mode of thought. I argue that the discourse of the ideal is the symbolic expression of humanity’s engagement with death, the ultimate existential concern made acute by the aspect of historical discontinuity in the crisis of representation. Plato and More exhibit comparable efforts to open to their readers the superior space of critical reflexivity which they themselves inhabit. From this conceptual, pre-representational space of conscious choice, language is subjected to achieving spiritual progress.
I introduce the concept of post-utopia, which describes a pragmatic moment when the relationship between author and the ideal society is brought into the foreground and reinforced as a way of addressing concerns with textual authority. I examine these developments in Augustine’s De Civitate Dei, François Rabelais’s episode of the Abbaye de Thélème in Gargantua, and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. These authors draw on the ideologies of representation inherent in utopian discourse, and position the authorial figure as link between scriptural teleology and history, ensuring spiritual and societal betterment in the textual cultures of late antiquity and early modernity. The figure of the author emerges as a symbol of history and of man’s ability to assume the limits of the mind and of language.
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Rehbinder, Nina Maroussia Graefin. "Dimensionen der Moderne im Faust II : Goethes kritische darstellung Gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts im Fünften Akt." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11962.
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Die vorliegende Untersuchung arbeitet die wesentlichen gesellschaftspolitischen und ökonomischen Entwicklungslinien heraus, die sich während der geschichtlichen Umbruchphase um 1830 im deutschen Raum aus dem letzten Akt von Goethes Faust II ableiten lassen.
Tiefgreifende politische, wirtschaftlich-technische und kulturelle Umwälzungen zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts wirkten auf Goethe als Zeitgenossen ein und wurden von ihm in seinem literarischen Spätwerk verarbeitet. Aus Goethes Alterswerk Faust II heraus lassen sich Konstanten und Entwicklungen seiner Zeit sichtbar machen und, immer eingebettet in den zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext, konkret nachweisen. Diese Ausarbeitung will aufzeigen, dass Goethe im letzten Akt von Faust II einen sich zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts vollziehenden – und teils bereits vollzogenen - Wandel der menschlichen Geisteshaltung attestiert. Säkularisierung und zweckorientierte Rationalität, Beschleunigung, Enthumanisierung und Unterwerfung von Mensch und Natur stehen hierbei im Mittelpunkt.
Fausts aus seinem Pakt mit dem Teufel entstandene Welt nimmt die uns heute umgebende vorweg, die geprägt ist von Datenflut, elektronischen Medien, einer von Alltagshektik geprägten Realität und systemimmanenten Expansionsstreben. Allein dies verleiht dem Drama ein unübersehbar hohes Gegenwartspotential.This thesis explores the trends of socio-political developments during the period of historical changes in Germany around 1830 that can be deduced from Act V of Goethe´s Faust II. Profound political, technical, economic and cultural changes at the beginning of the nineteenth century had an impact on Goethe as a contemporary and appear in his late literary work. Thus specific constants and developments of his time are also presented in and can be deduced from one of the great literary works of the aged poet, Faust II. This paper shows that the final act of Faust II Goethe reveals profound changes in human mentality that took place at the beginning of the nineteenth century and partly even before: Secularization and ruthless rationality with a tendency to acceleration, de-humanization and unscrupulous submission of human beings and nature. The world that originated from Faust´s pact with the devil in Faust II anticipates the reality surrounding us nowadays, a reality characterized by a flood of data, electronic media and the hectic pace of everyday life, - a fact vouching for the play´s striking modernity.
Classics & World Languages
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Felipe, Donzília Alagoinha. "As Representações da Morte na Prosa de Stefan Zweig e de Manuel Laranjeira." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/22413.
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O objectivo principal desta dissertação é desenvolver uma análise comparativa, a partir da
temática da morte, nas seguintes obras em prosa dos dois autores abaixo: Brief einer
Unbekannten 1922, (Carta de uma desconhecida, 2008), Angst, 1920, (O Medo, 1965),
Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau, 1927, (Vinte e quatro horas na vida de
uma mulher, 2008), Amok, 1922, (Amok, 1961) do austríaco Stefan Zweig [1881- 1942)]; e
Dor Surda, 1957, Diário Íntimo, 1957, e Cartas, 1943, do português Manuel Laranjeira
[1877-1912]. Embora tendo vivenciado culturas diferentes (a portuguesa e a germânica),
ambos partilharam o início do século XX e o terrível facto biográfico do suicídio. Começase
este trabalho com uma contextualização biográfica e histórico-cultural da época em que
viveram, e uma discussão sobre as respectivas biografias e bibliografias. Dado ambos terem
recorrido aos géneros epistolar e diarístico, serão considerados os modos como neles foi
usado evoluíram estes tipos de expressão. Será depois efectuada uma análise dos textos, de
carácter narratológico, que terá em conta as estruturas narrativas, caracterização das
personagens, os espaços, tempos, os modos e as vozes, e as marcas dos discursos. Procurarse-
á, a partir dos textos, descortinar as representações de forças antagónicas associadas às
temáticas do amor e da morte, da opressão e liberdade, da solidão e da convivência, tópicos
que traduzem a complexidade imagética do Homem, do cidadão, partilhada por estes dois
pensadores e visionários. Consolida-se, assim, a partir das construções narrativas, um pensamento crítico em torno das imagens literárias da morte, do suicídio e das figurações do
feminino. Serão destacadas semelhanças e diferenças entre os aspectos psicológicos, sociais
e históricos das respectivas literaturas e culturas, como se reflectem particularmente nas
práticas de Zweig e Laranjeira, de modo a evidenciar uma linha de pensamento unificadora
entre duas culturas tão diferentes quanto a portuguesa e a alemã.The main objective of this dissertation is to develop a comparative analysis of the representation of death in the following prose works of two authors: Brief einer Unbekannten, 1922, (Carta de uma desconhecida, 2008/ Letter from an Unknown Woman), Angst, 1920, (O Medo, 1965/ Fear), Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau, 1927, (Vinte e quatro horas na vida de uma mulher, 2008/ Twenty-four hours in the life of a woman), Amok, 1922, (Amok, 1961) by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig [1881-1942]); and Dor Surda, 1957 (novel), Diário Íntimo (intimate diary), 1957, and Cartas, 1943 (letters) by the Portuguese author Manuel Laranjeira [1877-1912]. Although they experienced different cultures (Portuguese and German), both shared the onset of the twentieth century, and the terrible biographical circumstance of suicide. This work begins with a biographical and historic-cultural contextualization of the time in which both lived, and with a discussion about their respective biographies and bibliographies. Given that both resorted to epistles and diaries, the ways in which these genres were employed and evolved will be considered. Subsequently, a narratological text analysis it will be carried out which will take into account plot structures, characters depiction, the use of spaces and times, modes, voices, and discourses. Furthermore, the texts will be delved to expose representations of antagonistic forces associated with the themes of love and death, oppression and freedom, solitude and coexistence, topics that convey and contribute to an image of human complexity, of the citizen’s dilemmas shared by these two thinkers and visionaries. Thus, starting from the works’ analysis a critical thinking will be developed and consolidated around the literary images of death, suicide and feminine issues. The similarities and differences between the psychological, social and historical facets of their respective literatures and cultures will be emphasised as echoed particularly in the practices of Zweig and Laranjeira, in order to highlight a unifying train of thought between two cultures as diverse as the Portuguese and the German.
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Keady, Joseph. "A Translation of Dominik Nagl’s Grenzfälle with an Introductory Analysis of the Translation Process." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/881.
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My thesis is an analysis of my own translation of a chapter from Dominik Nagl's legal history 'Grenzfälle,' which addresses questions of citizenship and nationality in the context of the German colonies in Africa and the South Pacific. My analysis focuses primarily on strategies that I used in an effort to preserve the strangeness of a linguistic context that is, in many ways, "foreign" to twenty first-century North Americans while also striving to avoid reproducing the violence embedded in language that is historically laden with extreme power disparities.