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 IN PROGRESS

B Literature

[General and comperative studies][German literature: general studies]
[German literature: To 1500][1500-1700][The eighteenth century and the Classical Age]
[The Romantic Age][1830-1890][1890-1945][Post-1945][Yiddisch literature]


B 1 General and comparative studies

‘The immortal voice’: aesthetic arts of the German Enlightenment (M Phil London, Glds) V. Cookson

Aspects of French and German women’s crime fiction (PhD London, QMW) N. Barfoot

Fairy-tale, myth and magical realism in contemporary English and German prose fiction (PhD Glasgow) U. Dapprich-Barrett

A comparative study of Byron’s Don Juan and Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan (PhD Glasgow) S. Allan

The question of madness in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The modern Prometheus (PhD Swansea) K. Preuß

George Mackay Brown – an Orcadian Thomas Mann? A study of George Mackay Brown with special consideration of the German influences on his work (PhD Edinburgh) S. Schmid

A comparative study of Thomas Mann’s Zauberberg and André Gide’s Les Faux-Monnayeurs (PhD Edinburgh) N. Todd

The Throne in the Forest: images of kingship in the Nibelungenlied and the Ramayana (PhD TCD) P. Dalzell

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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

The phenomenon of reworkings in German literature (PhD Aberdeen) G. M. Sharman

Dandyism as a literary phenomenon and the development of dandyistic ontology (PhD Cambridge) F. M. Knapp

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B 3 German literature:
 B 3.1 To 1500

Ideas of Against Nature in medieval German literature (M Litt TCD) L. Ní Bhriain

The presentation of authorship in thirteenth-century Middle High German narrative poetry (D Phil Oxford) S. C. Coxon

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

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 Short narratives in medieval French, German and Latin (D Phil Oxford) D. Burrows

Konrad Bollstatter, Augsburg scribe and author (M Litt Bristol) C. Evans

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

German mysticism: a comparison of Meister Eckhart and Heinrich Seuse (D Phil Oxford) S. Burkert

Musical and rhetorical features in the lyric poems of Hartmann von Aue (PhD Leeds) R. J. Davies

The presentation of female characters in the narrative works of Hartmann von Aue (M Phil Nottingham) A. Fiddy

The faculty of perception in the early narratives of Hartmann von Aue, with special reference to penitential practice and secular morality (PhD St. Andrews) H. Galloway

Time in Middle High German narrative literature, with special reference to Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival (PhD London, KC) J. A. Tiplady

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B 3.2 1500-1700

The theme of money in German literature (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel

Writing by Catholic nuns and Protestant ‘Stiftsdamen’ in the Early Modern Period (D Phil Oxford) C. Pears

The Reformation dialogue (PhD St. Andrews) F. M. K. Campbell

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

Sebastian Franck’s polemic pacifism: analysis of an ethical concept on the background of his contemporaries’ resonance (M Phil London, UC) B. Waschke

Making sense of a changing world: the work of Pamphilus Gengenbach (M Phil London, UC) P. Naylor

Der galante Roman Hunolds (D Phil Oxford) R. Wieder

A critical edition with commentary of Jacob Ruff’s

(PhD Stirling) J. K. Whitelaw

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B 3.3 The eighteenth century and the Classical Age

The theme of money in German literature (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel

Religion and Goethezeit (D Phil Oxford) P. E. Kerry

Representations of sickness and health in the work of German women writers 1770-1840 (PhD Exeter) A. Dworak

Realism in the drama of the Sturm und Drang (M Phil Birmingham) S. Green Drama by women writers around 1800 (PhD TCD) S. Jones

‘The immortal voice’: aesthetic arts of the German Enlightenment (M Phil London, Glds) V. Cookson

The moral tale in France and Germany in the eighteenth century (PhD Exeter) K. M. Astbury

The Gothic tale in France and Germany 1770-1820 (PhD Exeter) D. Hall

Georg Forster’s A Voyage round the World (PhD Cardiff) V. Agnew

The rhetoric of Goethe’s Erlebnislyrik (PhD London, UC) S. Kelly

Goethe’s perception of the myths and the irrational (D Phil Oxford) J. C. Jølle

The aesthetic and political philosophies of Diderot and Goethe (PhD Aberdeen) A. Neil

A comparative study of Byron’s Don Juan and Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan (PhD Glasgow) S. Allan

The female voice in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and La Picarà Justina (PhD Glasgow) P. D. Zecevic

The moment of retreat and reflection in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Stifter’s Der Nachsommer and Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich (PhD London, Glds) K. Hughes

Eating and identity: female fasting in German literature from Goethe to Freud (D Phil Oxford) A. Richards

Aspects of Goethe’s aesthetic/scientific consciousness (PhD Manchester) M. J. Cook

Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre as a modern novel (PhD London, KC) A. O’Donnell

Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften and contemporary scientific ideas (PhD London, KC) O. Taaffe

Das Problem ästhetischer Subjektivitätsentwürfe bei E.T.A Hoffmann und in der deutschen Romantik (PhD TCD) J. Riou

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

J. M. R. Lenz (D Phil Oxford) J. Gibbons

Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg and his relation to Classicism and Romanticism (PhD Manchester) E. Joshua

Lessing and the ‘Sturm und Drang’ (PhD Cambridge) K. Ottewell

Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Sophie von La Roche’s Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (D Phil Oxford) R. U. Umbach

The influence of Shakespeare on the German Enlightenment with an opening onto the late Romantic period (PhD Cambridge) C. Roger

The anthropology of Johann Carl Wezel (D Phil Oxford) C. Minter

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B 3.4 The Romantic Age

The theme of money in German literature (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel

Representations of sickness and health in the work of German women writers 1770-1840 (PhD Exeter) A. Dworak

Drama by women writers around 1800 (PhD TCD) S. Jones

Aspects of the supernatural in the shorter fiction of the German Romantics (PhD Sheffield) D. Blythe

The Gothic tale in France and Germany 1770-1820 (PhD Exeter) D. Hall

The book as source and symbol in German Romantic new mythology (PhD Manchester) L. Voronov

Bettina von Arnim as an apostle of Enlightenment (PhD Lancaster) T. J. H. Bailey

Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre as a modern novel (PhD London, KC) A. O’Donnell

E. T. A. Hoffmann and nineteenth-century English literature (PhD Keele) P. Bauer

E. T. A. Hoffmann and Russian literature in the 1920s (PhD Keele) S. Downes

Designing the female and desiring the feminine: the idea of woman in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann (PhD Liverpool) E. Bishop

Das Problem ästhetischer Subjektivitätsentwürfe bei E. T. A. Hoffmann und in der deutschen Romantik (PhD TCD) J. Riou

‘Das Schöne’ and ‘das Erhabene’ in E. T. A. Hoffmann (PhD Reading) B. Röder

The question of madness in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The modern Prometheus (PhD Swansea) K. Preuß

A commentary on Hölderlin’s Patmos (PhD London, KC) C. Braun

Heinrich von Kleist’s nationalism (M Phil Birmingham) E. Griffiths

The female voice in Novalis (M Litt TCD) J. Hodkinson

The influence of Shakespeare on the German Enlightenment with an opening onto the late Romantic period (PhD Cambridge) C. Roger

Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg and his relation to Classicism and Romanticism (PhD Manchester) E. Joshua

Ludwig Tieck and the Romantic Programme (PhD Cambridge) R. A. Bown

The life and works of Sophie Tieck (M Phil Leicester) J. Zimnowodski

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B 3.5 1830-1890

The theme of money in German literature (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel

Order and anarchy in nineteenth-century Swiss prose writing (PhD London, UC) M. Bott

Science as theme and metaphor in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (PhD London, UC) P. Smith

Satire (visual, verbal, musical) in Biedermeier Germany and its role in the interplay of literary movements (D Phil Oxford) F. Clark

Images of the Jew and Judaism in German literature 1850-1914 (D Phil Oxford) H. Burdekin

The portrayal of family rituals in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (M Phil London, UC) B. Lester

The aesthetics of Georg Büchner (PhD Edinburgh) R. Green

George Eliot’s ‘Bildungsroman’: Bildung or repression? (D Phil Oxford) M. Cabaud

The novels of Theodor Fontane (PhD Cambridge) P. J. Bowman

The moment of retreat and reflection in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Stifter’s Der Nachsommer and Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich (PhD London, Glds) K. Hughes

Heine and Nietzsche and post idealist religious philosophy (M Phil Sheffield) M. Chappell

A study of Friedrich Hölderlin’s letters (PhD Sheffield) L. Fechner

Philipp Königsmarck (PhD Bristol) J. M. Veale

Biology and eugenics in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche (PhD Cambridge) G. M. Moore

Schopenhauer and tragedy (D Phil Oxford) S. Krueger

Maß und Unmaß: a study of Adalbert Stifter (PhD London, UC) H. Ragg-Kirkby

Self-reflexivity in selected works by Storm (PhD Glasgow) S. Denison

Theodor Storm and the literary life of his time (M Phil London, KC) J. Breen

Landscape in the work of Theodor Storm (PhD Leicester) C. L. Baker

Theodor Storm’s historical Novellen (M Phil Leicester) A.-K. Hill

Edith Wharton and German literature (PhD London, UC) M. Mercuri

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B 3.6 1890-1945

The theme of money in German literature (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel

Images of the Jew and Judaism in German literature 1850-1914 (D Phil Oxford) H. Burdekin

The Jewish Kaffeehausliteraten of twentieth-century Vienna (PhD London, KC) S. Hart

The impact of Coffee Houses on literary style (PhD Edinburgh) M. Keane

Science as theme and metaphor in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (PhD London, UC) P. Smith

Perceptions of women in Austrian writing (PhD Exeter) E. E. Smith

Adultery in Austrian literature of the Fin de siècle, including an examination of the operetta (D Phil Oxford) R. B. Scholey

The portrayal of family rituals in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (M Phil London, UC) B. Lester

‘Männliches Allzumännliches’? Images of the masculine in German and Austrian novels of the Weimar Republic (D Phil Oxford) R. Kingerlee

Literature of political extremism in the Weimar Republic (PhD Sheffield) M. Fechner

Images of fascism in German and Austrian anti-fascist exile literature 1935-1943 (D Phil Oxford) D. Holmes

National Socialist ‘Thingspiel’ (PhD Sheffield) H.-J. Koch

Situating ‘Innere Emigration’: the individual and dissent in non-Nazi prose works published in the Third Reich (D Phil Oxford) S. Ward

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

Jewish characters in Feuchtwanger’s Wartesaal trilogy (M Phil London, UC) V. Grodzinski

Gender and language in the prose fiction of M. Fleisser (M Litt Bristol) C. A. Matthias

The novels of Theodor Fontane (PhD Cambridge) P. J. Bowman

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (D Phil Oxford) H. Grundmann

Hofmannsthal and the renewal of Greek myth (PhD Cambridge) P. E. M. Ward

English and Austrian aestheticism: on Oscar Wilde and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (M Phil London, UC) A. Schmäcke

Aus einem reichen Leben: the memoirs of Dr Alfred Huhnhäuser. A study in autobiography (PhD Stirling) C. Martin

History and time in the works of Ernst Jünger (D Phil Oxford) J. E. J. King

The aesthetics of absence in F. Kafka’s writings (PhD NUI UCC) M. Frendo

Kafka’s Amtliche Schriften (PhD Wales, Swansea) J. Davies

Kafka and the Central European Fin-de-siècle: alienation and the search for identity (D Phil Oxford) L. H. Eilittä

Modern German literature: Kafka and Bernhard (D Phil Oxford) P. C. Darukhanawala

A commentary on Kafka’s Der Proceß (PhD London, KC) K. Wischenkämper

The master/slave dialectic in Hegel, Lacan, Kafka and Beckett with reference to Kojèv and Deleuze (D Phil Oxford) S. Pollan

Twentieth-century German-Jewish literature in exile and Henry William Katz (D Phil Oxford) E. Pedersen

Else Lasker-Schüler and Edith Sitwell: a comparative study (M Phil Birmingham) C. Schalle

Der Mensch mit den modernen Nerven: Adolf Loos’s Kulturkritik (PhD Glasgow) J. Stewart

George Mackay Brown – an Orcadian Thomas Mann? A study of George Mackay Brown with special consideration of the German influences on his work (PhD Edinburgh) S. Schmid

A comparative study of Thomas Mann’s Zauberberg and André Gide’s Les Faux-Monnayeurs (PhD Edinburgh) N. Todd

Women figures in Thomas Mann’s fiction (M Phil London, UC) G. Valentine

Music, history, ontology: on Thomas Mann’s Dr Faustus (PhD London, UC) R. Pratt

Thomas Mann’s portrayal of nature (PhD London, UC) G. McMullin

Thomas Mann and the ‘Ideas of 1914’ (M Phil Birmingham) W. Moss

Buddenbrooks and The Forsyte Saga (M Phil London, UC) J. Bolton

‘Identification’ and ‘Projection’ in selected work of Thomas, Heinrich and Klaus Mann (PhD London, QMW) K. Junker

Gustav Meyrink (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

A critical and statistical analysis of Joseph Roth’s Berlin journalism (1920 - 1933) (PhD Leeds) I. Dressler-Pearson

Joseph Roth as mediator between Eastern European Jewry and the West (PhD Keele) A. May

A study of René Schickele’s Hans im Schnakenloch (M Litt TCD) A. McGillicuddy

Schnitzler’s Der Junge Medardus as drama and film (PhD Cambridge) H. Bachmann

Kurt Schwitters and the poets of the Sturmkreis (PhD London, KC) D. Scheyka

The poetry of Franz Baermann Steiner (PhD London, KC) N. Ziegler

The politics and poetics of Ernst Toller (PhD Stirling) J. Fotheringham

The tradition of Weimar humanism in the work of Jakob Wassermann, Lion Feuchtwanger and Klaus Mann (PhD Cambridge) S. H. Harris

Tiere in Ketten and Nahar: the Expressionist novels 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

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B 3.7 Post-1945

The portrayal of family rituals in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (M Phil London, UC) B. Lester

Fairy-tale, myth and magical realism in contemporary English and German prose fiction (PhD Glasgow) U. Dapprich-Barrett

Censorship in post-World War II Vienna (D Phil Oxford) B. Pennebaker

The presentation of a lost war: 1939-1945 in post-war West German popular prose (PhD Stirling) M. Sargeant

Arte – Ein deutsch-französisches Experiment für integratives europäisches Fernsehen: eine Bestandsaufnahme (D Phil Oxford) I. Plamann

The child’s role and perspective in the modern German novel (D Phil Oxford) D. M. Pinfold

Märchen in contemporary literature in German by women (D Phil Oxford)

M. P. Davies National identity in contemporary Austrian drama (PhD Nottingham) M. Saville

Aspekte des deutschen Theaters der Nachkriegszeit: eine Beschreibung politischer und propagandistischer Dramatik anhand von Einzelbeispielen (PhD UEA) F. Radvan

The lost eastern territories in post–war German literature and ‘Vergangenheits-bewältigung’ (PhD Swansea) C. George

Representations of history in GDR women’s writing (D Phil Oxford) H. Bridge

The language of silence: women’s writing in Switzerland 1970-1990 (PhD Strathclyde) I. Mackintosh

Das Irlandbild in der zeitgenössischen schweizerischen Literatur (MA NUI Maynooth) H. Hauser Walsh

Personal and social identity in recent women’s writing (M Phil London, UC) S. Goodchild

The Fantastic in shorter GDR prose fiction (PhD London, Glds) D. Wheeler

The crisis of the subject in recent GDR women’s writing (PhD London, UC) J. Barrett

The depiction of the Church in East and West German literature (M Litt Aberdeen) I. Macdonald

GDR women writers before and after the ‘Wende’ (PhD Bath) E. Alldred

Poetry since the ‘Wende’ (1989-95) by ex-GDR poets (D Phil Oxford) R. J. Owen

Eastern bloc cultural policy: the case of Sinn und Form (PhD Manchester) P. Davies

Problems of identity in the work of Jewish writers of the former GDR (PhD London, KC) J. Ross

‘Neue Subjektivität’ in the West German fiction of the 1970s and 1980s (PhD London, KC) J. Leal

The representation of radical subjectivity in recent German autobiography (PhD Cambridge) A. F. Plowman

Memories of childhood and youth: autobiographical fiction in the works of contemporary German and Austrian women writers (M Litt Bristol) M.-L. Glerup-Jensen

Cabaret and alternative theatre in contemporary Berlin (M Phil Sheffield) R. Bland

The lyrics of German-language singer-songwriters and rock musicians since the 1970s (PhD Swansea) A. Blühdorn

Landscape and topography in modern German literature (M Phil Sheffield) H. G. Peters

The political literature of German unification (PhD Reading) C. Bishop

Coming to terms with the Stasi: the response of writers of the former GDR to the ‘Wende’ (PhD St. Andews) S. Brass

Coming to terms with the GDR past (PhD Nottingham) A. Green

Contemporary German literature: the impact of the ‘Wende’ (PhD Edinburgh) K. Stein

Comedy and contemporary German drama (PhD Sheffield) G. Pye

Theatre criticism and theatrical scandals in contemporary Germany (M Phil Sheffield) M. Bauhuf

Theatre and reunification: adaptations and productions of the classical repertoire on the recent German stage (PhD Sheffield) H. Harnisch

Art and power: a study of H. G. Adler, Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch, and Franz Baermann Steiner (PhD London, KC) M. Mack

Comparative study of Bachmann and Celan in light of the aesthetics of T. W. Adorno (PhD Manchester) C. Gribble

Raumdarstellung in moderner Lyrik: eine Untersuchung zu Gedichten von Ingeborg Bachmann (PhD Cardiff) C. Rapisarda

Ernst Barlach reception (PhD Swansea) C. Handford

The premises of Roland Barthes’ theory and of his reception in the German speaking world (PhD Sheffield) M. Cibis

Konrad Bayer and the ‘Wiener Gruppe’ (MA UCC, NUI) T. Scannell

The poetry of Thomas Bernhard (PhD Sunderland) D. Kelly

Modern German literature: Kafka and Bernhard (D Phil Oxford) P. C. Darukhanawala

Narrative identity in Thomas Bernhard and Wolfgang Hildesheimer (PhD Nottingham) J. J. Long

Peter Bichsel and Gerhard Richter: a comparative analysis (M Phil Birmingham) B. Chasemore

Wolf Biermann: themes, motifs and forms (PhD Lancaster) M. Bilkau

Volker Braun: private relationships in a public world (PhD Lancaster) M. Delaney

The self-sacrifice of Brecht’s women (M Phil Leicester) N. S. Stott

Dissidence and social criticism in the work of Günter de Bruyn (PhD London, KC) C. Lewis

Literature and suicide in the work of Hermann Burger (PhD Warwick) A. Dennis

Frank Castorf’s political theatre: the legacy of Bertolt Brecht (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

Technology and mass culture in the writing of Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1956-1993 (PhD Southampton) A. King

The novels of Gerd Gaiser (PhD Wales, Swansea) S. Smith

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

Women characters in the work of Peter Handke (M Phil Nottingham) J. Steindl

The role of the chronicler in the work of Christoph Hein (PhD Edinburgh) J. Rayner

Existentialism and the work of Christoph Hein (PhD Sheffield) H. Wiesemann

The works of Christoph Hein (PhD Swansea) D. Clarke

Modernist awareness and responsiveness to socio-political change in the work of Christoph Hein (M Phil/PhD Bath) S. Bevan

A Lacanian analysis of selected writings by Hermann Hesse (PhD St. Andrews) S. Gullatz

Truth, power, knowledge: conflicting identities of the writer in a socialist state examined through the novels of Stefan Heym (PhD Cambridge) E. B. Tait

The work of Wolfgang Hilbig (PhD Birmingham) P. Cooke

Nature imagery in the work of Wolfgang Hilbig (MA University of Kent at Canterbury) C. Thongyai

The narrative work of Gert Hofmann (M Phil Birmingham) F. Cason

A study of Ulrich Holbein (PhD Swansea) P. Derrington

Narrative strategies in Marxist-Feminist novels: Elfriede Jelinek and Irmtraud Morgner (D Phil Oxford) E. A. Clements

Double bind: the construction of female subjectivities in the works of Elfriede Jelinek, Christa Reinig and Anne Duden (PhD Oxford Brookes) J. Lanyon

Ernst Jünger and right-wing aesthetics in contemporary Germany (M Phil Sheffield) P. Stear

Developments in working class drama and the ‘Volksstück’ since Franz Xaver Kroetz and Martin Sperr (M Phil Sheffield) M. Karpinski

The poetry of Dieter Leisegang (PhD London, KC) C. Oppler

The works of Erich Loest (PhD Swansea) S. Evans

George Mackay Brown – an Orcadian Thomas Mann? A study of George Mackay Brown with special consideration of the German influences on his work (PhD Edinburgh) S. Schmid

Rückzug und Aufbruch in Monika Marons Die Überläuferin und Stille Zeile Sechs (M Phil UCC, NUI) D. Byrnes

The conflict between conformity and dissent in the final years of the German Democratic Republic: an analysis of the interaction of politics, personalities and personal relationships in Monika Maron’s novel Stille Zeile Sechs (M Phil NUI UCC) K. Power

The novels of Anna Mitgutsch (PhD Bangor) K. Evans

Narration in the fictional works of Irmtraud Morgner (PhD Nottingham) R. H. Terry

The subversion of tradition: cultural and sexual politics in Morgner and Grass (D Phil Oxford) G. E. Westgate

Heiner Müller (PhD Nottingham) S. Bowhill

Politics and community in the work of Heiner Müller (PhD Warwick) A. Griffiths

Inge Müller (M Phil Salford) G. Heinicker

The novels of Hans Erich Nossack (PhD Swansea) R. Jenkins

The poetics of Elisabeth Reichart (PhD Nottingham) L. Ovenden

Uwe Saeger’s prose writing of the 1970s and 1980s (PhD Nottingham) J. Seifert

The poetry of Franz Baermann Steiner (PhD London, KC) N. Ziegler

The critique of culture in the prose work of Botho Strauß (PhD Birmingham) M. Johnson

The work of Yoko Tawada (PhD Sheffield) S. Fischer

Christa Wolf (PhD Salford) C. Colton

Political influence on private life in Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster (MA NUI UCC) S. Gillane

Christa Wolf’s Kassandra: die Wiederkehr des ewig Gleichen (MA NUI UCC) S. Amann

Emancipation, commitment and responsibility: a study of Christa Wolf’s writing (PhD London, Glds) R. Rechtien

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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

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