This thesis begins with an introduction to suicide in the 18th century. I will show how the society in the 18th century dealt with suicide and related problems like depre[...]

The Waltharius is a medieval Latin epic, written in the 9th or 10th century by an anonymous German monk. In this epic, the Germanic heroic tradition, the classical Greek [...]

Languages are open systems, which constantly change, adapt, and evolve. Contact and interaction between languages result in the exchange of words, concepts, and ideas. De[...]

Intercultural competence is often seen as an uncomplicated, natural byproduct of foreign language classes, whereas really it is its own objective without which communicat[...]

This purpose of this thesis is to gain insight into Elisabeth Langgssers condemnation of rationalization and exaltation of mystical experience by exploring the symbolic t[...]

Patriarchs in three of G.E. Lessings domestic tragedies abide by the unspoken rules set forth during the eighteenth century as they try to control their daughters lives a[...]

This thesis argues that the figure of Thusnelda in literary representations of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest undergoes a dramatic transformation in the late eighteen[...]

This thesis reflects the paradigm shift from product to process writing and its implications for beginning foreign language instruction. In contrast to the "traditional" [...]

This thesis traces the transition of Fritz Lang from German cinema to American. The development of Langs style and techniques used to demonstrate social and political asp[...]

The aim of this Masters Thesis is to show how the figure of the vampire can be read in connection to British and German vampire literature in the 19th century. By showing[...]

Over the course of the 18th century, many European authors wrote works as a reaction to the Seven Years War. Most of these writers, like Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and E[...]

My thesis offers a reading of Herta Mller's novel, Atemschaukel, published in the same year that the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I explore Mller's use of m[...]

Ukrainian and German are two languages which are distantly related and which have a similar grammatical structure. This thesis investigates and analyzes the major similar[...]

While the themes of race and religion play a role in the Nibelungenlied, they do not drive the plot of the narrative in any significant way a surprising fact when one co[...]

Works of Gothic fiction have distinguished themselves through a unique use of narrative perspectives, which evoke uncertainty as well as contingency in the narrative. In [...]

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the roles of female characters in Dorothea Schlegels Florentin. Dorothea Schlegel, who exhibited feminist behavior in her own lif[...]

This thesis deals with Martin Heideggers approach to the work of art as the opening of a world. By contrast, in the Western aesthetic tradition, the work of art is charac[...]

Universal Grammar is a theory argued to hold for first language acquisition, that provides a model of how humans acquire their native language. It is not entirely certai[...]

A discussion of methods that language can interface with the concepts and notions of grammar as well as a discussion about the way grammar and discourse affect the societ[...]

The allegorical representation of society in H.J.C. von Grimmelshausens Simplicissimus Teutsch (ST, 1669) is the central theme of the paper; an explication of the Stndeba[...]

In Friedrich Nietzsches The Birth of Tragedy and Walter Benjamins The Storyteller the emergence of art is based on cultural traditions which are negated by modernizing fo[...]

Films produced during the Third Reich generally fall into two categories: blatant propaganda films, which this paper terms hard-core propaganda films, or subtler, soft-co[...]

As realistic political fiction, Jenny Erpenbecks Gehen, ging, gegangen (2015) and Christoph Heins Weiskerns Nachlass (2011) respond to discourse on literary realism that [...]

In the last centuries, the question of literary orchestration of historic material increasingly became a focal point of debate within the historical science as much as th[...]

Postmemory plays an important role in the depiction of modern Poland in contemporary German literature. While a number of authors have written on this topic, the autobiog[...]