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 in progress 1995-96
A Language
B Literature
C History, Society, Institutions
A LANGUAGE
A 1 General
linguistics
Identity-generating potential of indigenous bilingualism
with special reference to the promotion of Gaelic in Scotland and Sorbian in
Germany (PhD Middlesex) K. Gebel
Aspects of German-English legal
translation (M Phil Sheffield) E. St John
A contrastive study of German
and English verb valency with reference to machine-readable dictionaries (PhD
UMIST) G. A. Gupta
Evaluation of `formulating decisions' of non-native
text producers: a computational model (PhD UMIST) M. Schulze
Vocabulary
acquisition by computer (PhD Thames Valley) S. Myles
An investigation
into universal grammar (PhD Strathclyde) B. Willar
Language and gender (M
Phil Lancaster) S. J. Parkins
Investigation of non-hierarchical
conceptual relations, their typology, and their linguistic representation in LSP
texts (M Phil Surrey) B. Bajaj
A knowledge-based approach to the
extraction of terms from LSP text (PhD Surrey) H. Fulford
Terminology of
congenital cardiac malformations (PhD Kingston in collaboration with Imperial
College) S. Mühlhaus
German `Kabarett' and language learning: creative
misbehaviour (PhD London, KC) J. McNally
Translating Heinrich Böll into
Irish: critical and experimental approaches (MA Limerick) C.
Budhlaeir
A 2 Germanic languages
generally
The weak verbs of Old Norse (PhD Newcastle upon Tyne) J.
Skinner
Aspect as a verbal category in Old Saxon (PhD TCD) S.
Watts
Changes in East German language since re-unification (M Phil
Sheffield) S. Kotschi
A 3 German
language
Language norm and language usage: the problem of lexical
unity in Early Modern German (PhD Newcastle upon Tyne) M.
Whitaker
Do-support and negation in the history of German (PhD
Newcastle upon Tyne) N. Langer
The weak verbs of Old High German (PhD
Newcastle upon Tyne) C. Bailey
The use and application of vowel gradation
in the Germanic languages (PhD Bristol) N. J. Laker
A study based on the
evidence in 16th-century `Weistümer' of the contribution of regional varieties
and levelling to the development of the German Standard Language (PhD Leeds) I.
Lamparter
Women and language in National Socialism (PhD London, RH) G.
Horan
The language of German advertising (PhD Newcastle upon Tyne) A.
Huebner
The language of German political advertising (M Phil Leicester)
J. Maxwell
An examination of colloquial German in comparison with
standard German in a unified Germany (M Phil Aberystwyth) M.
Griffiths
Germanic dialect in the Lorraine area of France (M Phil
Greenwich) S. P. Hughes
Language attitudes towards standard German in the
Wiesloch area (PhD Manchester) A. Hof
Aspects of German-English legal
translation (M Phil Sheffield) E. St John
Analysis of a corpus of
contemporary German economics and management discourse (PhD Birmingham) A.
Mackison
A contrastive study of German and English verb valency with
reference to machine-readable dictionaries (PhD UMIST) G. A.
Gupta
Aspects of the theory of literary translation, based on practical
study of existing German translation of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (PhD
St Andrews) I. Westphal
Conversational analysis and intercultural
communication: implications for foreign language teaching (PhD Sheffield) A.
Krengel
The `community language approach' in the teaching/learning
process of German as a foreign language: an empirical analysis (MA Maynooth) C.
Sosa
Text type hierarchies and the application of functional-notional
syllabuses to university German courses (M Litt Newcastle upon Tyne) G.
Wright
Computer assisted learning of German at an Irish Regional
Technical College (RTC) (MA Maynooth) A. M. King
German Languages for All
provision in higher education: an evaluative study with particular reference to
student drop-out (PhD Newcastle) N. Reimann
Literarische Texte im
Deutschunterricht irischer Sekundarschulen (MA Maynooth) C.
Creighton
German `Kabarett' and language learning: creative misbehaviour
(PhD London, KC) J. McNally
The language of the Nuremberg manuscript of
Hans Schiltberger's Reisebuch (M Litt Newcastle upon Tyne) Z.
Erol
B LITERATURE
B 1 General and comparative
studies
Fairy-tale, myth and magical realism in contemporary English
and German prose fiction (PhD Glasgow) U. Dapprich
Landscape, topography
and literature (PhD Sheffield) G. Peters
Zur Typologie des
Theater-Skandals (PhD Sheffield) M. Bauhuf
The German reception of Roland
Barthes (PhD Sheffield) M. Cibis
A comparative study of the female voice
in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and the Spanish picaresque novel (PhD
Glasgow) P. D. Zecevic
A comparative study of Byron's Don Juan and
Goethe's West-östlicher Divan (PhD Glasgow) S. Allan
B 2 German literature: general studies (incl. specific
themes and genres)
Historical and literary treatment of the Thirty
Years' War (D Phil Oxford) G. Mortimer
German `Kabarett' and language
learning: creative misbehaviour (PhD London, KC) J. McNally
The
phenomenon of reworkings in German literature (PhD Aberdeen) G.
Sharman
Zur Typologie des Theater-Skandals (PhD Sheffield) M.
Bauhuf
Freud's literary culture (PhD Liverpool) G.
Frankland
Aus einem reichen Leben: the memoirs of Dr Alfred
Huhnhäuser. A study in autobiography (PhD Stirling) C. Martin
A
comparative analysis of the `Bildungsroman' and `Künstlerroman' since Tieck's
William Lovell (PhD London, Glds) A. Torrie
B 3 German
literature
B 3.1 To
1500
Tricksters and pranksters in medieval and Renaissance French and
German literature (PhD Bristol) A. J. Williams
The theme of anger in
medieval German literature (PhD London, KC) C. Magner
A study of the
figure of Guinevere in medieval German Arthurian literature, with reference to
her role in the wider medieval Arthurian tradition (M Phil London, KC) C.
Knowles
A study of Arthurian material in contemporary German literature
(PhD Manchester) C. Lambert
Comparative aspects of epic poetry with
particular reference to the sources and function of imagery and motif in the
Nibelungenlied and the Ramayana (PhD TCD) P.
Dalzell
Contra naturam in medieval German texts (M Litt TCD) L. Ní
Bhriain
The presentation of authorship in thirteenth-century Middle High
German narrative poetry (D Phil Oxford) S. C. Coxon
Studies in the role
of description in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes and their German adaptions
(D Phil Oxford) M. J. Florence
Studies in the reception of the `Historia
Scholastica' of Peter Comestor in medieval German and Dutch literature (D Phil
Oxford) M. C. Sherwood-Smith
Old Testament figures in Jansen Enikel's
Weltchronik (PhD Stirling) R. G. Dunphy
Subjectivity in the works
of Hartmann von Aue (PhD St Andrews) H. Galloway
The presentation of the
female character in the narrative works of Hartmann von Aue (PhD Nottingham) A.
Fiddy
Musical and rhetorical features in the lyric poems of Hartmann von
Aue (PhD Leeds) R. J. Davies
Time in Middle High German narrative
literature, with special reference to Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
(PhD London, KC) J. A. Tiplady
B 3.2 1500-1700
The theme of money in German
literature (M Phil London, UC) R. Wenzel
The impact of literacy in the
Early Modern Period (M Phil London, UC) P. Naylor
Portrayals of women and
the oriental in German Baroque dramas and opera librettos (D Phil Oxford) S. J.
Colvin
Sebastian Franck's Geschichtsbibel (PhD St Andrews) S. E.
Harvey
A topic on Sebastian Franck (M Phil London, UC) B.
Waschke
A critical edition with commentary of Jacob Ruff's Adam und
Heva (PhD Stirling) J. K. Whitelaw
B 3.3 The eighteenth century and the Classical
Age
The theme of money in German literature (M Phil London, UC) R.
Wenzel
Religion and Goethezeit (D Phil Oxford) P. E. Kerry
The
Gothic tale in France and Germany 1770-1820 (PhD Exeter) D. Hall
The
moral tale in France and Gemany in the eighteenth century (PhD Exeter) K.
Astbury
Misogyny and popular philosophy in late 18th-century Germany (M
Litt TCD) M. A. Kenny
Realism in the drama of the Sturm und Drang (M Phil
Birmingham) S. Green
Women's drama around 1800 (PhD TCD) S.
Jones
Das Verhältnis von Literatur, Religion und Philosophie im Spätwerk
von Matthias Claudius (1740-1815) und seine literarische Beziehung zu Friedrich
Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) (PhD TCD) S. Donovan
Goethe's perception of
the myths and the irrational (D Phil Oxford) J. C. Jolle
The aesthetic
and political philosophies of Diderot and Goethe (PhD Aberdeen) A.
Neil
The rhetoric of Goethe's `Erlebnislyrik' (M Phil London, UC) S.
Kelly
Aspects of Goethe's aesthetic/scientific consciousness (PhD
Manchester) M. J. Cook
A comparative study of Byron's Don Juan and
Goethe's West-östlicher Divan (PhD Glasgow) S. Allan
Goethe's
Die Wahlverwandtschaften and contemporary scientific ideas (PhD London,
KC) O. Taaffe
Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre as a modern
novel (PhD London, KC) A. O'Donnell
A comparative study of the female
voice in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and the Spanish picaresque novel (PhD
Glasgow) P. D. Zecevic
Sound, music and the language of harmony in the
works of Friedrich Hölderlin
(D Phil Oxford) V. J.
Campbell
Hölderlin and translation (PhD Cambridge) C. B.
Louth
Humboldt's theory of language (PhD London, KC) E.
Stubbs
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Sophie von La Roche's
Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (D Phil Oxford) R. U.
Umbach
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz: sein Frauenbild (PhD East Anglia) M.
Paterson
Lessing and `gemischte Charaktere': Lessing's theory and
practice of dramatic characterisation (PhD Cambridge) A. C. Schmiesing
An
investigation of the theoretical insights of Jürgen Habermas in relation to the
aesthetic writings of Schiller (PhD Strathclyde) F. M. Birrell
Friedrich
Leopold von Stolberg and his relation to German Romanticism (PhD Manchester) E.
Joshua
B 3.4 The Romantic
Age
Aspects of the supernatural in the shorter fiction of the German
Romantics (PhD Sheffield) D. Blythe
The uncanny in English and German
literature of the Romantic period (PhD London, UC) J. Forssmann
The book
as source and symbol in German Romantic new mythology (PhD Manchester) L.
Voronov
The theme of money in German literature (M Phil London, UC) R.
Wenzel
Women's drama around 1800 (PhD TCD) S. Jones
Bettina von
Arnim as an apostle of Enlightenment (M Phil Lancaster) T. J. H.
Bailey
The importance of Romantic aesthetics for the interpretation of
Thomas Bernhard's Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall and Alte Meister. Komödie
(PhD London, UC) S. Kaufmann
Das Verhältnis von Literatur, Religion
und Philosophie im Spätwerk von Matthias Claudius (1740-1815) und seine
literarische Beziehung zu Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) (PhD TCD) S.
Donovan
Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre as a modern novel
(PhD London, KC) A. O'Donnell
Designing the female and desiring the
feminine: the idea of woman in the works of E.T. A. Hoffmann (PhD
Liverpool) E. Bishop
E. T. A. Hoffmann and the cult of natural magic (PhD
Nottingham) R. J. Elliss
The sublime in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Die
Elixiere des Teufels (M Phil Reading) B. Röder
Transitions in
subjectivity and aesthetic imagination in selected literary texts from
E. T.
A. Hoffmann to Franz Kafka (PhD TCD) J. Riou
Aspects of E. T. A.
Hoffmann's `Märchen' (M Phil Keele) S. Downes
E. T. A. Hoffmann and
nineteenth-century English literature (PhD Keele) P. Bauer
Friedrich
Hölderlin (M Phil Sheffield) L. Fechner
Friedrich Leopold von Stolberg
and his relation to German Romanticism (PhD Manchester) E. Joshua
Ludwig
Tieck and the Romantic programme (PhD Cambridge) R. A. Bown
B 3.5
1830-1890
Landscape, topography and
literature (PhD Sheffield) G. Peters
The theme of money in German
literature (M Phil London, UC) R. Wenzel
The portrayal of family rituals
in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (M Phil London,
UC) B. Lester
Science as theme and metaphor in German literature of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries (PhD London, UC) P. Smith
Linguistic
and cultural displacement in twentieth-century German fiction and autobiography
(PhD London, UC) M. Jopling
Order and anarchy in nineteenth-century Swiss
prose writing (PhD London, UC) M. Bott
The work and reception of Berthold
Auerbach (1812-82) (PhD Cambridge) A. M. Bunyan
The aesthetics of Georg
Büchner (PhD Edinburgh) R. Green
The position of women in
nineteenth-century Austria, as portrayed in the works of Marie von
Ebner-Eschenbach, Karl Emil Franzos and Ferdinand von Saar (M Litt Bristol) A.
M. Taylor
Die Landpartien und Sommerfrischen in den Romanen Theodor
Fontanes (MA Galway) S. Gilger
The portrayal of society in Fontane's
Frau Jenny Treibel and Raabe's Im alten Eisen (MA Maynooth) M.
Ronane
Heine and Nietzsche (M Phil Sheffield) M. Chappell
Philipp
Königsmarck (M Litt Bristol) J. M. Veale
Narrative perspective and
landscape in Der Nachsommer (PhD London, Glds) C.
Ernst
Self-reflexivity in selected works by Storm (PhD Glasgow) S.
Denison
Theodor Storm's historical Novellen (M Phil Leicester) A.-K.
Hill
Landscape in the work of Theodor Storm (PhD Leicester) C. L.
Baker
Theodor Storm and the literary life of his time (M Phil London, KC)
J. Breen
Edith Wharton and German literature (PhD London, UC) M.
Mercuri
B 3.6 1890-1945
The
portrayal of family rituals in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries (M Phil London, UC) B. Lester
Science as theme and metaphor in
German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (PhD London, UC) P.
Smith
Linguistic and cultural displacement in twentieth-century German
fiction and autobiography (PhD London, UC) M. Jopling
The theme of money
in German literature (M Phil London, UC) R. Wenzel
Some aspects of German
literature and cinema (PhD Cambridge) H. Bachmann
The impact of coffee
houses on literary style (PhD Edinburgh) M. Keane
A conflict of
perception: medical aspects of German First World War literature (PhD Stirling)
I. Schmitz
`Männliches Allzumännliches'? Images of the masculine in
German and Austrian novels of the Weimar Republic (D Phil Oxford) R.
Kingerlee
Extreme left- and right-wing writing in the Weimar Republic
(PhD Sheffield) M. Fechner
The press of the Weimar Republic and its
representation in German literature (PhD Bristol) F. C. Foster
Anti-war
literature in Germany 1918-1933 (PhD Nottingham) T. Bartz
Situating
`Innere Emigration': the individual and dissent in non-Nazi prose works
published in the Third Reich (D Phil Oxford) S. Ward
Theatre in National
Socialist Germany (PhD Sheffield) H. Koch
Migrant experience and its
literary reflection (PhD Sheffield) S. Fischer
Political satire in the
novel of the business world (M Phil Sheffield) S. Old
Narratological
structures in German working class literature (PhD Sheffield) A. Harper
A
study of utopian novels in modern German literature (M Litt Bristol) M. P.
Kaye
Art and power: a study of H. G. Adler, Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch
and Franz Baermann Steiner (PhD London, KC) M. Mack
Hanns Heinz Ewers and
the Gothic tradition in German literature (D Phil Oxford) M. A.
Müller
Images of the metropolis in Fallada, Kästner, Döblin - and in the
visual arts (PhD London, UC) D. Smail
Gender and language in the prose
fiction of M. Fleisser (M Litt Bristol) C. A. Matthias
Jewish characters
in Feuchtwanger's Wartesaal trilogy (M Phil London, UC) V.
Grodzinski
Freud's literary culture (PhD Liverpool) G.
Frankland
The reconstruction of identity in exile literature: Anna
Gmeyner, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen (D Phil Sussex) A.
Hammel
Biography, historiography and the philosophy of history in Hermann
Hesse's Die Morgenlandfahrt and Das Glasperlenspiel (PhD London,
KC) C. Seeger
A Lacanian interpretation of Hermann Hesse (PhD St Andrews)
S. Gullatz
English and Austrian aestheticism: on Oscar Wilde and Hugo von
Hofmannsthal (M Phil London, UC) A. Schmäcke
Ernst Jünger (M Phil
Sheffield) P. Stear
History and time in the works of Ernst Jünger (D Phil
Oxford) J. E. J. King
Kafka's Amtliche Schriften (PhD Swansea) J.
Davies
A deconstructive approach to Kafka's Der Prozeß, in the
light of recent editorial controversies (PhD London, KC) K.
Wischenkämper
Kafka and the central European Fin-de-siècle: alienation
and the search of identity (D Phil Oxford) L. H. Eilitta
Modern German
literature: Kafka and Bernhard (D Phil Oxford) P. C.
Darukhanawala
Transitions in subjectivity and aesthetic imagination in
selected literary texts from
E. T. A. Hoffmann to Franz Kafka (PhD TCD) J.
Riou
The aesthetics of absence in F. Kafka's writings (PhD Cork) M.
Frendo
Depictions of the family in selected fiction by Heinrich, Klaus
and Thomas Mann (PhD London, KC) K. Junker
Klaus Mann and the Weimar
Republic (PhD Nottingham) A. L. Ford
Buddenbrooks and The
Forsyte Saga (M Phil London, UC) J. Bolton
Thomas Mann's portrayal of
nature (PhD London, UC) G. McMullin
Order in a world of chaos: a
comparative study of aspects of the work of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, and Luis
Cernuda (PhD Glasgow) N. C. McKinlay
A comparative study of Thomas Mann's
Zauberberg and André Gide's Les Faux-Monnayeurs (PhD Edinburgh) N.
Todd
Gustav Meyrink 1868-1932: the `Aesthetics of the Lost Dimension'
(PhD London, Glds) A. Hill-Fernie
Theodor Plievier: literature, politics
and exile (D Phil Oxford) A. M. West
Naming and language in the thought
of Franz Rosenzweig (D Phil Oxford) D. S. Groiser
The work written in
exile by the novelist Joseph Roth (D Phil Oxford) J. A. Hughes
Joseph
Roth as mediator betweeen Eastern European Jewry and the West (PhD Keele) A.
May
Incongruity as a rhetorical device in Joseph Roth's Berlin journalism
(PhD Leeds) I. Dressler-Pearson
A study of René Schickele (M Litt TCD) A.
McGillicuddy
The Saint in R. Schneider (PhD TCD) J. O'Shea
The
poetry of Franz Baermann Steiner (PhD London, KC) N. Ziegler
The politics
and poetics of Ernst Toller (PhD Stirling) J. Fotheringham
Der Dichter
als Revolutionär: zur Interdependenz von Leben und Kunst im Werk Ernst Tollers
(MA Maynooth) P. Stewart
Kurt Tucholsky and France (PhD Nottingham) S. J.
Burrows
The tradition of Weimar humanism in the work of Jakob Wassermann,
Lion Feuchtwanger and Klaus Mann (PhD Cambridge) S. H. Harris
The
reluctant atheist: Christianity in the works of Frank Wedekind (PhD Swansea) F.
Whalley
A study of Ernst Weiß (M Litt TCD) C. Kehoe
Edith Wharton
and German literature (PhD London, UC) M. Mercuri
Stefan Zweig as a
writer of Novellen (M Phil Keele) K. Broad
B 3.7 Post-1945
A study of Arthurian material in
contemporary German literature (PhD Manchester) C. Lambert
The portrayal
of family rituals in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
(M Phil London, UC) B. Lester
Linguistic and cultural displacement in
twentieth-century German fiction and autobiography (PhD London, UC) M.
Jopling
Some aspects of German literature and cinema (PhD Cambridge) H.
Bachmann
Dialektliteratur im Raume Kölns (MA Galway) V.
O'Connell
Narratological structures in German working class literature
(PhD Sheffield) A. Harper
Fairy-tale, myth and magical realism in
contemporary English and German prose fiction (PhD Glasgow) U.
Dapprich
Aspects of contemporary German-Swiss female writers (M Phil
Strathclyde) I. Mackintosh
Conceptions of the audience in modern German
theatre (M Phil Leicester) N. S. Stott
Border and border experience: the
border motif in post-war German political, philosophical and literary culture
(PhD Aston) S. Kirkbright
The child's role and perspective in the modern
German novel (D Phil Oxford) D. M. Pinfold
Comedy in the contemporary
German theatre (PhD Sheffield) G. Pye
Subjectivity in women's fiction
from German-speaking countries (M Phil/PhD Central Lancashire) A.
Mitchell
Memories of childhood and youth: autobiographical fiction in the
works of contemporary German and Austrian women writers (M Litt Bristol) M.-L.
Glerup-Jensen
The representation of radical subjectivity in recent German
autobiography (PhD Cambridge) A. F. Plowman
The lost eastern territories
in post-War German literature (PhD Swansea) C. George
West German
satirical texts and the debate on national identity (PhD Swansea) P.
Evans
Political satire in the novel of the business world (M Phil
Sheffield) S. Old
Zur Typologie des Theater-Skandals (PhD Sheffield) M.
Bauhuf
Berlin cabaret since 1945 (M Phil Sheffield) R. Bland
A
republic of letters? Political-cultural journals in Germany 1945-1949 (PhD
Cambridge) C. E. M. Flanagan
The presentation of a lost war: 1939-1945 in
post-war West German popular prose (PhD Stirling) M. Sargeant
Post-war
German literature of the 1950s and 1960s: the image of America in West German
literature from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s (PhD Cambridge) S. J.
Taberner
A critical history of German cinema 1988-1995 (PhD Southampton)
J. Legge
The depiction of the Church in East and West German literature
(M Litt Aberdeen) I. Macdonald
`Neue Subjektivität' in the West German
fiction of the 1970s and 1980s (PhD London, KC) J. Leal
Mothers and
children in the GDR: literary representations and empirical evidence (PhD Bath)
C. A. Sourbut
GDR prose writing of the 1970s and 1980s (PhD Nottingham)
J. Seifert
Poetry in East Germany (PhD Salford) G. Heinicker
The
fantastic in shorter GDR prose fiction (PhD London, Glds) D. Wheeler
The
reception of Romanticism by women writers of the GDR (PhD Exeter) P.
Joyce
The crisis of the subject in recent GDR women's writing (PhD
London, UC) J. Barrett
Eastern bloc cultural policy: the case of Sinn
und Form (PhD Manchester) P. Davies
Sexuality in GDR literature and
film of the 1970s and 1980s (PhD Manchester) J. E. Gregson
Problems of
identity in the work of Jewish writers of the former GDR (PhD London, KC) J.
Ross
The impact of the `Wende' on the work of East German women writers
(PhD Bath) E. A. Alldred
The literature of the `Wende' (PhD Reading) C.
Bishop
Contemporary German literature: the impact of the `Wende' (PhD
Edinburgh) K. Stein
Coming to terms with the Stasi: the response of
writers of the former GDR to the `Wende' (PhD St Andrews) S. Brass
Art
and power: a study of H. G. Adler, Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch and Franz
Baermann Steiner (PhD London, KC) M. Mack
A comparative study of Bachmann
and Celan in the light of the aesthetics of T. W. Adorno (PhD Manchester) C.
Gribble
An exploration of the double figure in Bachmann's Malina
and a comparison with the equivalent in Elfriede Jelinek's film adaptation (MA
Cork) B. Cronin
A study of the short stories of Ingeborg Bachmann (MA
Galway) A. Ryan
Ernst Barlach reception (PhD Swansea) C.
Handford
The German reception of Roland Barthes (PhD Sheffield) M.
Cibis
Konrad Bayer and the `Wiener Gruppe' (MA Cork) T.
Scannell
The importance of Romantic aesthetics for the interpretation of
Thomas Bernhard's Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall and Alte Meister. Komödie
(PhD London, UC) S. Kaufmann
Modern German literature: Kafka and
Bernhard (D Phil Oxford) P. C. Darukhanawala
Narrative and identity in
Thomas Bernhard and Wolfgang Hildesheimer (PhD Nottingham) J. J.
Long
Wolf Biermann: themes, motifs and forms (PhD Lancaster) M.
Bilkau
History and landscape in Bobrowski's short stories (PhD Bath) A.
F. Williams
Translating Heinrich Böll into Irish: critical and
experimental approaches (MA Limerick) C. Budhlaeir
Private relationships
in a public world: the prose works of Volker Braun (PhD Lancaster) M.
Delaney
Volker Braun: private relationships in a public world (PhD
Lancaster) M. Delaney
Dissidence and social criticism in the work of
Günter de Bruyn (PhD London, KC) C. Lewis
A study of Hermann Burger (PhD
Warwick) A. Dennis
The theatre of Frank Castorf (PhD Sheffield) K.
Bargna
Reading the post-Holocaust lyric: a study of the lyric poetry of
Celan, Ausländer and Sachs (PhD Cambridge) B. J. Thomson
Switzerland's
`unbewältigte Vergangenheit' with special reference to W. M. Diggelmann's Die
Hinterlassenschaft (M Phil Birmingham) M. Fleming-Froy
Tankred
Dorst's Toller and Günter Grass's Die Plebejer proben den
Aufstand: a comparative analysis (MA Maynooth) J. Gaffney
German
theatre and unification: the example of Wolfgang Engel (PhD Sheffield) H.
Harnisch
The plebiscite of the consumers: Hans Magnus Enzensberger on
technology, culture and democracy (PhD Southampton) A. King
The novels of
Gerd Gaiser (PhD Swansea) S. Smith
The reconstruction of identity in
exile literature: Anna Gmeyner, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur
Mühlen (D Phil Sussex) A. Hammel
Ivan Goll's Jean sans Terre (MA
Galway) M. Carney
A Lacanian approach to the narratives of Günter Grass
(PhD Southampton) K. Hall
Grass's Die Blechtrommel and Rushdie's
Midnight's Children: an analytical comparison (PhD Birmingham) D.
Green
An exploration of the travel motif in the works of Peter Handke (M
Litt TCD) S. Groome
Women characters in the works of Peter Handke (M Phil
Nottingham) J. Steindl
Approaches to the Past in Peter Handke's Die
Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, Wunschloses Unglück,
Kindergeschichte, and Chinese des Schmerzes (MA Galway) H.
Thornton
Religion in the work of Christoph Hein (PhD Sheffield) H.
Wiesemann
`Truth' in the works of Stephan Heym (MA Galway) D.
Lydon
Inner Landscapes in the work of Wolfgang Hilbig (MA University of
Kent at Canterbury) K. Thongyai
The work of Wolfgang Hilbig (PhD
Birmingham) P. Cooke
The narrative work of Gert Hofmann (M Phil
Birmingham) F. Cason
Narrative strategies in Marxist-Feminist novels:
Elfriede Jelinek and Irmtraud Morgner (D Phil Oxford) E. A.
Clements
Ernst Jünger (M Phil Sheffield) P. Stear
Alfred
Kantorowicz as editor of Ost und West (PhD Swansea) K. Wynne
The
portrayal of women in the works of Helga Königsdorf (PhD London, Glds) J.
Kilvington
Developments in working class drama and the `Volksstück' since
Franz Xaver Kroetz and Martin Sperr (M Phil Sheffield) M. Karpinksi
The
poetry of Dieter Leisegang (PhD London, KC) C. Oppler
The works of Erich
Loest (PhD Swansea) S. Evans
Music, history, ontology: on Thomas Mann's
Dr Faustus (M Phil London, UC) R. Pratt
Daughter-father
relationships in Monika Maron's novel Stille Zeile Sechs (MA Cork) S.
Borge
A study of Felix Mitterer's play Die Frau (MA Cork) C.
Mulcahy
Narration in the fictional works of Irmtraud Morgner (PhD
Nottingham) R. H. Terry
Constructions of sexuality in GDR literature,
with special reference to Irmtraud Morgner and Gabriele Stötzer-Kachold (PhD
Lancaster) B. V. Linklater
The subversion of tradition: cultural and
sexual politics in Morgner and Grass (D Phil Oxford) G. E.
Westgate
Ethics, community and politics in the work of Heiner Müller (PhD
Warwick) A. Griffiths
The un/committed political playwright: selected
plays of Heiner Müller (D Phil Oxford) D. J. Barnett
The novels of Hans
Erich Nossack (PhD Swansea) R. Jenkins
Der Landvermesser: Hanns-Josef
Ortheils Suche nach der poetischen Heimat (PhD Warwick) H. Schmitz
The
works of Elisabeth Reichart (PhD Nottingham) L. D. Ovenden
Gerhard Roth:
Die Archive des Schweigens (PhD East Anglia) U. Schütte
The works
of Rafik Schami (MA Galway) S. Nestor
The poetry of Franz Baermann
Steiner (PhD London, KC) N. Ziegler
From modernism to postmodernism:
continuities and disjunctures in German literary practice and theory. The case
of Botho Strauß (M Phil Institute for German Studies, Birmingham / PhD
Birmingham) M. Johnson
Uwe Timm's Morenga (MA Galway) M.
Stapleton
Christa Wolf: Kassandra. Weibliches Schreiben in der DDR
(MA Cork) S. Amann
Political influence on private life in Christa Wolf's
Kindheitsmuster (MA Cork) S. Gillane
Christa Wolf: context,
subtext and intertext (PhD London, Glds) R. A. Rechtien
`Realismus der
Utopie': utopia, `Sinngebung' and art in Christa Wolf's Sommerstück (PhD
Salford) C. Colton
B 6 Yiddish
literature
`Sheyne Mayses': Yiddish chapbooks 1660-1730 (D Phil
Oxford) J. L. Dowling
Yiddish periodicals published by displaced persons
in Germany, France and Italy, 1946-1949 (D Phil Oxford) A. Kuper
Margalioth
Tradition and innovation in the ballads of Itsik Manger (D
Phil Oxford) H. F. Beer
C HISTORY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS
C 1
History, politics, sociology
C 1.1 To
1900
German national identity (PhD Sheffield) K.
Wilds
Iro-schottische Einflüsse auf die religiöse Kultur des frühen
Mittelalters (MA Galway) A. Cassidy
The aesthetic and political
philosophies of Diderot and Goethe (PhD Aberdeen) A. Neil
The concept of
leadership in the political and cultural discourse of Germany and its
development from the Napoleonic myth to the present day (PhD Aston) K.
Bradshaw
Wilhelm Stekel and the origins of psychoanalysis (D Phil Sussex)
F. Clark-Lowes
C 1.2 From
1900
The concept of leadership in the political and cultural
discourse of Germany and its development from the Napoleonic myth to the present
day (PhD Aston) K. Bradshaw
Identity-generating potential of indigenous
bilingualism with special reference to the promotion of Gaelic in Scotland and
Sorbian in Germany (PhD Middlesex) K. Gebel
Intercultural negotiation:
linguistic, cultural and organisational considerations in course design (PhD
TCD) G. Martin
German national identity (PhD Sheffield) K.
Wilds
Sources of the Irish image of Germany 1900-1939 (PhD TCD) J.
Fischer
A comparison of British and German attitudes to the problems of
policing the EU (PhD Aberdeen) A. Naughton
Youth, anti-urbanism and
anti-modernism in Britain and Germany 1900-1939 (PhD Birmingham) M.
Mertens
Laban, Ausdruckstanz and society (PhD Surrey) C.-L.
Moore
Political thought and state health policy in post-war Britain and
Germany (PhD Aston) D. Pritchard
Attitudes to work in East and West
Germany up to 1989 (M Phil Sheffield) K. Godfrey
Co-ordination of
collective bargaining strategies by employers' association in Germany and
Britain (PhD South Bank) F. O'Brien
German business and right-wing
violence (PhD Sheffield) D. Phillips
German trade unions and the social
consensus (M Phil Sheffield) C. Annesley
The establishment of the East
German dictatorship in Thuringia 1945-1968 (PhD London, UC) M. Allinson
A
critical history of the SED (PhD Sheffield) P. Thompson
The history and
nature of the Catholic youth culture in the former GDR (PhD Nottingham) J. K.
Kappler
The Freie Deutsche Jugend (M Phil Sheffield) J. Rhys
The
transition of the Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands from socialist mass
organisation to western charitable association (PhD Liverpool) J. K.
Teschner
Mothers and children in the GDR: literary representations and
empirical evidence (PhD Bath) C. A. Sourbut
A study of Erich Honecker
with particular reference to the reformist movement emanating from the Soviet
Union (M Phil Exeter) H. Dexter
The role of the Protestant Church in the
`Wende' in the GDR (PhD Reading) S. Brown
Dissent and compliance in the
GDR: East Berlin and Brandenburg, 1949-1989 (M Phil London, UC) C.
Ross
Process of unification: Germany, Italy, and Europe in comparison (M
Phil London, UC) B. de la Serna-Lopez
Aspects of political culture in the
transition from the GDR to the new Bundesländer (PhD Institute for German
Studies, Birmingham) N. Hubble
The `Stasi' legacy: a study of the
`Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter' (PhD Glasgow) B. Miller
Language and ideology
of the PDS (PhD Durham) M. Denison
The transformation of the PDS (PhD
Birmingham; joint supervision with CREES) T. Oppenkowski
The withdrawal
of Soviet troops from East Germany: process and impact (PhD Keele) J.
Gulliver
Hungarian systemic transformation and economic development and
its counterpart in the `Neue Bundesländer': a comparative analysis (PhD
Institute for German Studies, Birmingham) J. Stephan
German policy
formulation with regard to the eastern enlargement of the EU (PhD Institute for
German Studies, Birmingham) S. Collins
The Europeanisation of policy
processes in the UK and Germany: a comparative analysis of regional and
migration policies (PhD Institute for German Studies, Birmingham) P. A.
Henson
German strategic culture: an analysis (PhD Institute for German
Studies, Birmingham) K. Longhurst
Intelligence work and foreign policy:
German-Israeli intelligence and security co-operation, 1954-94 (PhD Institute
for German Studies, Birmingham) S. Shpiro
The relationship between
Britain and Germany in the field of security since 1989 (PhD Institute for
German Studies, Birmingham) A. Hoffmann
Wage equalisation in the German
construction industry (M Phil Institute for German Studies, Birmingham) M.
Clayson
Labour market change and employment policy in Germany post
unification (M Phil Institute for German Studies, Birmingham) C.
Nativel
`Ausländerpolitik' in Germany: a policy networks approach (PhD
Institute for German Studies, Birmingham) S. O. Green
The changing
structure of corporate governance in Germany (PhD Institute for German Studies,
Birmingham) S. Tilford
The development of conservative and right-wing
thought in Germany (PhD Birmingham) A. Ketch
`Red-Green' coalitions in
the Federal Republic of Germany: models of formation and maintenance (PhD
Institute for German Studies, Birmingham) C. Lees
Women in engineering in
Germany since unification (PhD Middlesex) L. Felton
Bündnis 90/Die
Grünen: a case study of political alliances in Brandenburg 1990-1994 (PhD UWE)
B. Harper
Environmentalist thought in contemporary Germany (PhD Keele) I.
Blühdorn
Wolf Biermann's Wende (PhD Liverpool) D. Nolan
An
investigation of the theoretical insights of Jürgen Habermas in relation to the
aesthetic writings of Schiller (PhD Strathclyde) F. M. Birrell
Oswald
Spengler and the contemporary methodology debate, with special reference to the
concept of history (PhD Institute for German Studies, Birmingham) J.
Liddle
C 2 Business and management
studies since 1900
Attitudes to work in East and West Germany up to
1989 (M Phil Sheffield) K. Godfrey
Internal communication in East German
organisations (M Phil Robert Gordon) L. Muirhead
The relative
effectiveness of political pressure, corporate self-restraint and consumer
pressure in achieving corporate social responsibility: a comparison of Britain
and Germany (PhD Luton) L. Preuss
German business and right-wing violence
(PhD Sheffield) D. Phillips
German trade unions and the social consensus
(M Phil Sheffield) C. Annesley
The economic transformation of
post-Communist East Germany: a case study of British firms (PhD Keele) K.
Sucher
TQM - Does it deliver? An Anglo-German comparative analysis (PhD
Institute for German Studies, Birmingham) E. C. Mennerich
C 3 The press, the media, the
arts
Germany and the horror film (M Phil Warwick) R.
Kiss
Images of Germany in British public opinion: their relationship of
diversities in the development of specific forms of political culture (PhD
Oxford Brookes) M. L. Luginsland
The standing in Great Britain of the
German cinema after 1945 (PhD Reading) J. Lembach
Visual arts in Germany
since 1945: a study in criticism (M Phil Institute for German Studies,
Birmingham) J. Hawksley
Images of women and gender relations in DEFA
cinema films of the seventies and eighties (PhD Reading) A.
Rinke
Sexuality in GDR literature and film of the 1970s and 1980s (PhD
Manchester) J. E. Gregson
The press in the former GDR since 1989 (PhD
Sheffield) J. McHaffie
Left critique of the Bildzeitung (PhD
Limerick) O. Prendergast
The role of the media in German unification (PhD
Swansea) K. von Oppen
Wolf Biermann's Wende (PhD Liverpool) D.
Nolan
The interplay of media: Rainer Werner Faßbinder's films (PhD
Edinburgh) U. Militz
On Werner Herzog's films (PhD Edinburgh) E.
Ballin
The work of Alexander Kluge (PhD Edinburgh) G.
Lockenkötter
The state and the German film industry: the example of Oskar
Messter (PhD Reading) T. Carrozza
Edgar Reitz' Heimat (PhD
Edinburgh) M. Sobhani
Histories, mythologies and fictions in Edgar
Reitz's Heimat (PhD Manchester) R. J. Palfreyman
Alternative film
mode as represented by Straub/Huillet (PhD Edinburgh) U. Böser
Sound and
image in Wim Wenders's films (PhD Edinburgh) A. Graf
The aesthetics of
documentary film: Klaus Wildenhahn (PhD Edinburgh) G.
Lorenz