Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland
Research in Germanic Studies 1995-96
© The University of Aberdeen and
The Institute of Germanic Studies 1996
Theses Completed in 1995
A Language
B Literature
C History, Society, Institutions
A LANGUAGE
A 1 General
linguistics
Investigations into verb valency, contrasting German and
English (PhD Lampeter) K. F. R. Fischer
West German bank advertising and
the East German public: a study in intercultural advertising communication
(PhD Aston) H. Kelly-Holmes
A 2 Germanic languages
generally
The personal pronoun in the Germanic languages (PhD London,
RH) S. Howe
A 3 German
language
The development of `servant' words in German Bible texts
from the earliest translations to the Early Modern period (M Litt Newcastle upon
Tyne) M. Whitaker
B LITERATURE
B 1 General and comparative
studies
Translations of Irish fairy tales in Germany and their
contribution to the German image of Ireland (MA Limerick) C. Ní
Lanagáin
Nietzsche and Proust: a comparative study (D Phil Oxford) D.
Large
The German reception of Romain Rolland and Jean-Cristophe
1910-1945 (PhD Edinburgh) G. Harrison
B 2 German literature: general studies (incl. specific
themes and genres)
South West German `Naturtheater': an investigation
into expressions of cultural identity (PhD Sheffield) A. M. Phipps
B 3
German literature:
B 3.1 To
1500
From epic to `aventiure': the literary evolution of Dietrich in
the thirteenth century (M Litt St Andrews) P. J. Guthrie
The portrayal of
women in Kudrun and in Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet (M Litt
Newcastle upon Tyne) E. Whitfield
A comparison of Wolfram von
Eschenbach's Parzival with his Willehalm: narrative
perspectives in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm (PhD
Cambridge)
C. J. Young
B 3.3 The eighteenth century and the Classical
Age
Departure and return in Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion
(MSc Edinburgh) R. Nicol
B 3.5 1830-1890
Modes of translation in
nineteenth-century Anglo-German intellectual exchange (PhD Cambridge) S. P.
Stark
The private eye: the depiction of introspection in selected works
of Flaubert and Fontane (PhD London, UC) T. Peck
Studies on Hebbel's
poetry (PhD Aberystwyth) C. M. Lewis
A historical and critical edition of
Freiheit in Krähwinkel and Judith und Holofernes by Johann Nestroy
(PhD Exeter) J. R. P. McKenzie
B 3.6 1890-1945
Ideology, technology and the
historical Avant Garde (MSc Edinburgh) F. Knapp
A study of the imagery of
Hans Arp (PhD TCD) C. Kenny
Bettauer and the culture of Vienna in the
1920s (M Phil Exeter) E. Stewart
Sleep in Kafka's autobiographical
writings and fiction (MA Cork) M. Frendo
Kafka's women (M Phil
Birmingham) V. Lawrence
Rudolf Kassner and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Criticism as art: the reception of Pre-Raphaelitism in Fin-de-siècle Vienna (PhD
Edinburgh) S. Rizza
The travel writing of Egon Erwin Kisch (PhD Cardiff)
P. O'Reilly
The humanisation of myth: a study of Thomas Mann's Joseph
und seine Brüder in the context of contemporary cultural politics in Germany
(PhD Birmingham) A. Lawson
Nietzsche and Proust: a comparative study (D
Phil Oxford) D. A. G. Large
The German reception of Romain Rolland and
Jean-Cristophe 1910-1945 (PhD Edinburgh) G. Harrison
The problem
of marriage in the plays of Hermann Sudermann (D Phil Oxford) K. G.
Leydecker
Martina Wied in exile (PhD Aberdeen) A. Milne
B 3.7
Post-1945
The fictional construction of
women's historical identities in the light of contemporary feminist theories: a
critical study of selected contemporary biographical fiction in German (PhD
Birmingham) S. Bird
The portrayal of Jews in GDR prose fiction (PhD
Nottingham) P. O'Doherty
Social criticism in GDR children's literature of
the Honecker era (PhD Edinburgh) A. M. Thompson
`Gespielte Wirklichkeit':
the rise and demise of documentary theatre in twentieth-century Germany (M Phil
Leicester) J. S. Stunell
South West German `Naturtheater': an
investigation into expressions of cultural identity (PhD Sheffield) A. M.
Phipps
The past as story and model: the narration of history in post-war
German literature and film (PhD Edinburgh) M. S. Palmer
The role of the
writer in the unification of Germany (PhD Swansea) K. von
Oppen
Raumdarstellung in moderner Lyrik: eine Untersuchung zu Gedichten
von
Ingeborg Bachmann (PhD Cardiff) C. Rapisarda
The nihilism of
Thomas Bernhard: the portrayal of existential and social problems in his works
(PhD Birmingham) C. W. Martin
`Ein Training im Ich-Sagen': personal
authenticity in the prose work of Günter de Bruyn (PhD Swansea) O.
Evans
The interplay of `Lebens- und Zeitgeschichte' in Elias Canetti's
autobiographical writings (MA Cork) M. C. Bourke
A decade of Dürrenmatt:
a study of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's short prose from 1942 to 1952 (MA Galway) D.
Ní Dhomhnaill
Political morality in the poems of Erich Fried (PhD Bangor)
P. Collard
A comparison of the novel Homo faber by Max Frisch and
the film Homo faber directed by Volker Schlöndorff (MA Maynooth) A.
Carr
`Die kleineren Dramen': a study of the prose writings of Ulrich
Plenzdorf from 1970 to 1980 (MA Galway) B. Currie
The conditio
humana and George Saiko's anthology Giraffe unter Palmen (PhD
Reading) N. Douda
`Eine Rechnung, die nicht aufgeht': identity and
ideology in the fiction of Wolfdietrich Schnurre (PhD Swansea) I.
Roberts
`Gefahr in den Städten, Gefahr auf dem Meere': a study of Anna
Seghers's novel Transit (MA Galway) M. Lyons
Unfathomable comedy:
mythology and the archaic in Botho Strauß (PhD Liverpool) J.
Dunn
Experience and its articulation: the question of form in the poetry
of Ernst Toller (PhD Warwick) J. A. M. Jordan
Robert Walser as a model
for the modern Swiss writer (PhD Bristol) E. L. F. Cox
The
`Liedertheater' of Wenzel and Mensching (PhD Sheffield) D. Robb
C
HISTORY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS
C 1 History, politics, sociology
C
1.2 From 1900
German foreign policy:
continuity and change (MSc Econ Aberystwyth) K. Longhurst
Polish Western
European foreign policy: the significance of unified Germany (MA Nottingham
Trent) S. Collins
Communitarianism in Germany (M Phil Cardiff) A.
Reiche
Turkish women in Germany (MA Surrey) E. Stiegler
The case
of Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm: a contribution to the study of German-speaking
exiles in Britain during the 1930s (PhD London, KC) C. E. J. Brinson
C
2 Business and
management studies since 1900
West German bank advertising and the
East German public: a study in intercultural advertising communication (PhD
Aston) H. Kelly-Holmes
C 3 The press, the media, the
arts
South West German `Naturtheater': an investigation into
expressions of cultural identity (PhD Sheffield) A. M.
Phipps
Documentation and fiction in Straub and Huillet's adaptations of
Böll's Hauptstädtisches Journal and Billard um halbzehn (PhD
London, KC) M. Brady
Sound and image in the films of Wim Wenders (MSc
Edinburgh) A. Graf
The `Liedertheater' of Wenzel and Mensching (PhD
Sheffield) D. Robb