Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland

Research in Germanic Studies 1996-97

© The University of Aberdeen and The Institute of Germanic Studies 1996


THESES COMPLETED IN 1996

A LANGUAGE

[ German language ] [ Literature ] [ History, Society, Institutions ]


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

The evidence of the Tatian Gospel translations for the syntax of Old High German (M Phil Manchester Metropolitan) K. A. Bernhardt

Community language learning: a reappraisal in the task-based context (MA NUI Maynooth) C. Sosa

Writing with word processing in German as a foreign language (MA NUI Maynooth) A. M. King

Mnemonics and German language teaching (MA NUI Maynooth) U. Shanley

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B LITERATURE

B 1   General and comparative studies

Order in a world of chaos: a comparative study of a central dialectic in works of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Luis Cernuda (PhD Glasgow) N. C. McKinlay

B 2   German literature: general studies (incl. specific themes and genres)

Freud’s literary culture (PhD Liverpool) G. Frankland

B 3 German literature:

B 3.1 To 1500

Continuing the quest: a study of the use and function of Arthurian material in contemporary texts by Tankred Dorst, Christoph Hein, Peter Handke and Adolf Muschg (PhD Manchester) C. Lambert

Old Testament figures in Jansen Enikel’s Weltchronik (PhD Stirling) R. G. Dunphy

B 3.3 The eighteenth century and the Classical Age

Der christliche Publizist und sein Glaubensphilosoph: Matthias Claudius und Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi als Freunde und Mitstreiter in Religion, Literatur und Philosophie, 1780-1815 (PhD TCD) S. Donovan

Jakob Lenz and the family bond (MA UEA) M. Paterson

G. E. Lessing’s theory and practice of dramatic characterisation (PhD Cambridge) A. C. Schmiesing

B 3.4 The Romantic Age

The uncanny in English and German literature of the Romantic period (PhD London, UC) J. Forssmann

The importance of Romantic aesthetics for the interpretation of Thomas Bernhard’s Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall and Alte Meister. Komödie (PhD London, UC) S. Kaufmann ‘Avantgarde im Hinterland’: die revolutionär-romantische Konstruktion der Caroline Schlegel-Schelling in der DDR-Literatur (PhD Cardiff) F. Meyer

Early Romantic conceptions of the divine, with particular reference to Friedrich Schleiermacher, Novalis, and Friedrich Schlegel (M Phil Leicester) D. Brown

B 3.5  1830-1890

Linguistic and cultural displacement in twentieth-century German fiction and autobiography (PhD London, UC) M. Jopling

Volksliteratur and the search for a new literature in the ‘Vormärz’ and beyond: the work and reception of Berthold Auerbach (PhD Cambridge) A. M. Bunyan

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

The image of Berlin in Fontane’s Frau Jenny Treibel and Raabe’s Im alten Eisen (MA NUI Maynooth) M. Ronane

B 3.6  1890-1945

A conflict of perception: medical aspects of German First World War literature (PhD Stirling) I. Schmitz-Sieben

Der sozialistische Antikriegsroman in der Weimarer Republik (PhD Nottingham) T. Bartz

The press of the Weimar Republic and its representation in German literature (PhD Bristol) F. Foster

The importance of being impotent: shifting landscapes of sexuality and gender in Hermann Broch’s Die Verzauberung (M Litt St. Andrews) B. C. Maddrell

Mythological elements in Expressionism: a study of Ehrenstein, Benn and Heym (M Litt St. Andrews) R. Augustin

Images of the metropolis in Fallada, Kästner, Döblin – and in the visual arts (PhD London, UC) D. Smail

Freud’s literary culture (PhD Liverpool) G. Frankland

Biography, historiography and the philosophy of history in Hermann Hesse’s Die Morgenlandfahrt and Das Glasperlenspiel (PhD London, KC) C. Seeger

From tragic hero to Christian saint: paradigm-shift in selected writings of Reinhold Schneider 1903-1958 (PhD TCD) J. P. O’Shea

The elusive transcendent: the role of religion in the plays of Frank Wedekind (PhD Swansea) F. Whalley

B 3.7  Post-1945

Linguistic and cultural displacement in twentieth-century German fiction and autobiography (PhD London, UC) M. Jopling

‘Avantgarde im Hinterland’: die revolutionär-romantische Konstruktion der Caroline Schlegel-Schelling in der DDR-Literatur (PhD Cardiff) F. Meyer

A republic of letters? Political-cultural journals in Germany 1945-1949 (PhD Cambridge) C. E. M. Flanagan

West German satirical texts and the debate on national identity (PhD Swansea) P. V. Evans

The narrator as fabulist: fantasy, fictionalization and exploration in German novels of the 1960s (D Phil Oxford) C. E. M. Paver

The role of the writer in the unification of Germany (PhD Swansea) K. von Oppen

An exploration of the double figure in Bachmann’s Malina and a comparison with the equivalent in Elfriede Jelinek’s film adaptation (MA NUI UCC) B. Cronin

The importance of Romantic aesthetics for the interpretation of Thomas Bernhard’s Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall and Alte Meister. Komödie (PhD London, UC) S. Kaufmann

The interplay of ‘Lebens- und Zeitgeschichte’ in Elias Canetti’s autobiographical writings (MA NUI UCC) M. Bourke

Continuing the quest: a study of the use and function of Arthurian material in contemporary texts by Tankred Dorst, Christoph Hein, Peter Handke and Adolf Muschg (PhD Manchester) C. Lambert

Distorted reflections: the public and private faces of the author in the work of Uwe Johnson, Günter Grass and Martin Walser, 1965-1975 (PhD Cambridge) S. J. Taberner

Daughter-father relationships in Monika Maron’s novel Stille Zeile Sechs (MA NUI UCC) S. Borge

A study of Felix Mitterer’s play Die Frau (MA NUI UCC) C. Mulcahy

Constructions of sexuality in GDR literatures, with special reference to Irmtraud Morgner and Gabriele Stötzer-Kachold (PhD Lancaster) B. V. Linklater

‘Literatur ist dazu da, dem Theater Widerstand zu leisten’: textual problems and theatrical realizations in the later plays of Heiner Müller (D Phil Oxford) D. J. Barnett

Der Landvermesser: Hanns-Josef Ortheils Suche nach der poetischen Heimat (PhD Warwick) H. Schmitz

Auf der Spur der Vergessenen: Gerhard Roths Archive des Schweigens (PhD UEA) U. Schütte

From tragic hero to Christian saint: paradigm-shift in selected writings of Reinhold Schneider 1903-1958 (PhD TCD) J. P. O’Shea

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C HISTORY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS

C 1   History, politics, sociology
  C 1.1 To 1900

Cultural constructions of female sexuality and motherhood in Imperial Germany, 1871-1915 (PhD Cardiff) C. Bland

Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939: Geschichte – Form – Funktion (PhD TCD) J. Fischer

  C 1.2 From 1900

Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939: Geschichte – Form – Funktion (PhD TCD) J. Fischer

  C 2 Business and management studies since 1900

The dynamics of plant-level industrial relations: a study of the regulation of occupational health and safety in the German metal-working industry (PhD Surrey) N. Salter

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