Contents

           THESES IN PROGRESS 1997/98


           A LANGUAGE
           A 1 General linguistics
           A 2 Germanic languages generally
           A 3 German language
           A 6 Yiddish language
           B LITERATURE
           B 1 General and comparative studies
           B 3 German literature
           B 3.1 To 1500
           B 3.2 1500-1700
           B 3.3 The eighteenth century and the Classical Age
           B 3.4 The Romantic Age
           B 3.5 1830-1890
           B 3.6 1890-1945
           B 3.7 Post-1945
           B 4 Dutch literature
           B 6 Yiddish literature
           C HISTORY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS
           C 1 History, politics, sociology
           C 1.1 To 1900
           C 1.2 From 1900
           C 2 Business and management studies since 1900
           C 3 The press, the media, the arts

THESES IN PROGRESS 1997/98
A

LANGUAGE

A 1 General linguistics



A study of oppositeness in the lexis of English and German (PhD Manchester) V. Hayes

Identity-generating potential of indigenous bilingualism with special reference to the promotion of Gaelic in Scotland and Sorbian in Germany (PhD Middlesex) K. Gebel

German legal terminology and translation theory (M Phil Sheffield) E. St. John

Temporal ordering relations between concepts: a typological approach to their identification, linguistic realization and interlingual comparison in British and German official aircraft accident reports (PhD Surrey) B. Bajaj

An investigation into universal grammar (PhD Strathclyde) B. Willar

Conversational analysis and intercultural communication: implications for foreign language teaching (M Phil Sheffield) A. Krengel

Intercultural communication (M Phil Sheffield) J. Woodin

Metaphor in political advertising texts in Germany and the UK (M Phil Leicester) J. Maxwell

Computer-assisted language learning: its implementation at university level (M Phil Exeter) I. Wonnacott

A 2 Germanic languages generally



A study of interlanguage phonology with reference to English speakers learning German (M Phil London, RH) A. Broomfield

The influence of English on German (M Phil London, RH) R. Griffiths

Terminology of congenital malformations and its perception by different user groups (PhD Kingston / Imperial College) S. Mühlhaus

A 3 German language



Word order in Old High German (PhD TCD) G. O'Reilly

The weak verbs of Old High German (PhD Newcastle upon Tyne) C. Bailey

The weak verbs of Old Norse (PhD Newcastle upon Tyne) J. Skinner

Regionalism and standardisation of the German language: the evidence from sixteenth-century custumals (PhD Leeds) I. Lamparter

Language use in Magdeburg (M Phil Newcastle upon Tyne) N. Böheim Do-support and negation in the history of German (PhD Newcastle upon Tyne) N. LangerLanguage attitudes towards Standard German in the Wiesloch Area (PhD Manchester) A. Hof

A case study in translation: the Aberdeen doctors (PhD Aberdeen) S. Weyland

German Kabarett and language learning: creative misbehaviour (PhD London, KC) J. McNally

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

Rußlanddeutsche: a sociolinguistic analysis (PhD Aberdeen) L. Black

Vocabulary acquisition in German as a foreign language (MA NUI, Maynooth) F. Cotter

A comparison of the teaching of modern languages in primary schools in Scotland and Germany (M Litt Aberdeen) C. McLennan

History of teaching German in the Republic of Ireland (MA NUI, Maynooth) N. Mhaghnais

Teaching German as a foreign language in Malaysia (MA NUI, Maynooth) E. O'Sullivan

Interactive approaches to the teaching and learning of German in Irish primary schools (M Phil Cork) N. Dooley

Drama as an active learning strategy in the teaching and learning of grammar (PhD Cork) S. Even

Models of syntactic description for modern German (M Phil Newcastle upon Tyne) E. Sandaver

The lexical and syntactic properties of the infinitive in German (PhD Manchester) P. Cook

A study of oppositeness in the lexis of English and German (PhD Manchester) V. Hayes

Women and language in National Socialism (PhD London, RH) G. Horan

Analysis of a corpus of contemporary German economics and management discourse (PhD Birmingham) A. Mackison

Some literary translation problems posed by Salmon Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, with special reference to a published German translation (PhD St Andrews) I. Westphal

The vocabulary of Serranus' dictionary (M Litt Newcastle upon Tyne) S. Brett

A 6 Yiddish language



Hebrew language contact in Yiddish (D Phil Oxford) C. Zuckermann

B LITERATURE

B 1 General and comparative studies



A comparative study of contemporary Swiss and Scottish literature (PhD Edinburgh) C. Laubscher

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

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 Byron's Don Juan and Goethe's West-östlicher Divan (PhD Glasgow) S. M. Allan

The question of madness in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann and Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein or the modern Prometheus (PhD Wales, Swansea) K. Preuß

Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim and Richardson'sClarissa: a case study in eighteenth-century Anglo-German literary relations (D Phil Oxford) R. Umbach

Decadence and cultural pessimism in Nietzsche and Tolstoy (D Phil Oxford) S. Koroliov

Fairy-tale, myth, Magical Realism as models of the transformation of the real: narrative modes in contemporary English and German prose fiction with special reference to Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Irmtraud Morgner, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie and D. M. Thomas (PhD Glasgow) U. Dapprich-Barrett



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



The impact of coffee houses on literary style (PhD Edinburgh) M. Keane

Women and illness in German women's novels, 1770-1914 (D Phil Oxford) A. C. Richards

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

Dandyism as a principle of aesthetic composition: a study on Büchner, Kafka and Oswald Wiener (PhD Cambridge) F. M. Knapp

B 3 German literature

B 3.1 To 1500



Attitudes to war in medieval German literature of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (M Phil London, KC) R. E. Kellett

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, withreference to her role in the wider medieval Arthurian tradition (M Phil London, KC) C. Knowles

Contra naturam in medieval German texts (M Litt TCD) L. Ní Bhriain

Medical conditions in medieval German literature to 1250 (M Litt TCD) J. Byrne

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

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

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

Rhetorical and musical 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 (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel

Self-consciousness in the early novel (M Phil London, UC) J. Bertsch

First-person narration in the early European novel (PhD London, UC) R. Uhrig

The Prosaroman as a transitional type (M Litt TCD) C. Politis

Perceptions of the Thirty Years' War in contemporary accounts and in literature (D Phil Oxford) G. Mortimer

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

Writing by nuns in German in the early modern period (D Phil Oxford) C. Pears

The problem of the individual in the seventeenth-century novel (D Phil Oxford) R. Wieder

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. Jenkins

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

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 (PhD London, UC) R. WenzelThe moral tale in France and Germany in the 18th century (PhD Exeter) K. Astbury

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

Presentations of sickness and health in the works of German women writers, 1770- 1840 (PhD Exeter) A. I. E. 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

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

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

The uses and function of myth in Goethe's early works (D Phil Oxford) J. C. Jolle

The idea of tolerance and the writings of Goethe (D Phil Oxford) P. E. Kerry

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

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

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

The interdependence of science and literature in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandt-schaften(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

Humboldt's theory of language (PhD London, KC) E. Stubbs

The pursuit of authenticity: contrasting and complementary modes of discourse in the writings of J. M. R. Lenz (D Phil Oxford) J. M. Gibbons

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

Historical theory in the later Friedrich Schlegel (D Phil Oxford) I. Scheiblauer

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

Pedagogic elements in the fictional and other writings of Johann Carl Wezel (1747- 1819) (D Phil Oxford) C. J. Minter

B 3.4 The Romantic Age



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

Individualism as theme in French and German Romanticism (M Phil London, UC) S.Whittock

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

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

Heine (D Phil Oxford) D. R. Lewis
  1. T. A. Hoffmann and the cult of Natural Magic (PhD Nottingham) R. Elliss
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

Designing the female and desiring the feminine: the idea of woman in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann (PhD Liverpool) E. Bishop
  1. T. A. Hoffmann and nineteenth-century English literature (PhD Keele) P. Bauer
  2. T. A. Hoffmann and Russian literature in the 1920s (PhD Keele) S. Downes
Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and the State of Germany: the politics of Heinrich von Kleist (PhD Birmingham) E. Griffiths

Periphery and perspective in Kleist's work (M Litt TCD) R. MagShamhráin

The female voice in Novalis (PhD TCD) J. Hodkinson

The Romantic magus initiation and tradition in the new mythology of Novalis, Hoffmann and Fouqué (PhD Manchester) L. Voronov

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

B 3.5 1830-1890



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

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

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

Fiction's cultural shorthand: images of Jews and Judaism in German literature 1848- 1914 (D Phil Oxford) H. L. Burdekin

Biedermeier bestiaries and philistine physiognomy: image and word in Biedermeier satire (D Phil Oxford) F. S. ClarkThe aesthetics of Georg Büchner (PhD Edinburgh) R. Green

Dandyism as a principle of aesthetic composition: a study on Büchner, Kafka and Oswald Wiener (PhD Cambridge) F. M. Knapp

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

Men, women and the Melusine: gender and humanity in the novels of Theodor Fontane (M Phil Birmingham) S. Braithwaite

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

Nietzsche: truth and rhetoric of interpretation (PhD Cambridge) C. J. Emden

Arthur Schopenhauer on tragedy (D Phil Oxford) S. Krüger

Theodor Storm: landscape and topography (PhD Sheffield) H. G. Peters

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

Landscape in Theodor Storm's Novellen (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

B 3.6 1890-1945



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

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

Perceptions of women in Austrian writing, 1912-1945 (PhD Exeter) E. E. Smith

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

The poets of the Sturmkreis (PhD London, KC) D. Scheyka

German literature of the First World War (PhD Lancaster) G. Klatt

Forms of literary assent and dissent in the 20th-century German dictatorships (PhD Manchester) M. Philpotts

Literature of political extremism in the Weimar Republic (PhD Sheffield) M. FechnerNational Socialist Thingspiel (PhD Sheffield) H.-J. Koch

Growing up in the Third Reich: the depiction of youth in National Socialist and exile fiction (D Phil Oxford) A. C. Schmidt-Ott

Literature in exile: antifascist writing in Switzerland 1929-39 (D Phil Oxford) L. D. Holmes

The discourse of circulation and Neue Sachlichkeit (PhD Nottingham) F. Littlejohn

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

Benjamin, Bloch and fin-de-siècle English aesthetics (PhD Nottingham) B. Mertens

Brecht, Naturalism and Stanislavsky (PhD London, KC) V. Jones

Subordinated women? An analysis of four plays by Bertolt Brecht (M Phil Leicester) N. S. Stott

Ambiguity in the narratives of Marieluise Fleisser (M Litt Bristol) C. A. Matthias

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

Hanns Heinz Ewers and the Gothic tradition in German literature (M Litt Oxford) M. A. Müller

The principle of duality in Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest (M Phil Cork) Y. Winkler

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

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

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

Time, history and modernity in the early work of Ernst Jünger (D Phil Oxford) J. E. J. King

Kafka's 'amtliche Schriften' (PhD Wales, Swansea) J. Davies

Kafka's metamorphoses: reception and representation (PhD Cambridge) M. Guida

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

Dandyism as a principle of aesthetic composition: a study on Büchner, Kafka and Oswald Wiener (PhD Cambridge) F. M. Knapp

Henry William Katz: the life and work of a German-Jewish writer and journalist in exile (D Phil Oxford) E. R. A. Pedersen

Siegfried Kracauer as cultural critic and Weimar literature (PhD Nottingham) M. Fleischer

Else Lasker-Schüler and Edith Sitwell: a comparative study (M Phil Birmingham) C. SchalleGertrud von le Fort: Christian women writers and the inner emigration (D Phil Oxford) L. H. Saward

An excavation of Adolf Loos's cultural criticism (PhD Glasgow) J. Stewart

Klaus and Thomas Mann (MA Kent) F. Strath

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

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

Naturwissenschaft in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg (M Phil Oxford) M. C. W. Herwig

A discourse analysis approach to Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (PhD London, KC) J. Orman

Theodor Plievier: literature, politics and exile (D Phil Oxford) A. M. Stein

Erich Maria Remarque's novels of exile (MA NUI, Maynooth) E. Duffy

Die Problematik des Ich bei Rilke (PhD TCD) D. Downes

Joseph Roth's late novels (PhD Wales, Swansea) J. 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

René Schickele: writer between two cultures (M Litt TCD) A. McGillicuddy

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

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

Some aspects of Ernst Toller's plays (MA NUI, Maynooth) P. Stewart

Kurt Tucholsky and France (PhD Nottingham) S. Burrows

The animal metaphor in Ernst Weiß' Tiere in Ketten and Nahar (M Litt TCD) C. Kehoe

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

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

Stefan Zweig as a writer of Novellen (M Phil Keele) K. Broad

B 3.7 Post-1945



Sexuality, sorority and subversion: an exploration of the literary depiction of the continuum of German women's relationships (PhD Central Lancashire) A. L. Mitchell

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

The child's view: a study of narrative perspective in and after the Third Reich, with reference to selected German novels (D Phil Oxford) D. Pinfold

Forms of literary assent and dissent in the 20th-century German dictatorships (PhD Manchester) M. Philpotts

Das Irlandbild in der deutschschweizerischen Gegenwartsliteratur (MA NUI, Maynooth) H. Hauser

A comparative study of contemporary Swiss and Scottish literature (PhD Edinburgh) C. Laubscher

Effects of anti-communism on Austrian cold-war literature (D Phil Oxford) E. L. Pennebaker

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

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

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

Courting Bluebeard: Märchen in recent literature in German by women (D Phil Oxford) M. P. Davies

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

'Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung': the '68 generation is coming home (PhD Wales, Swansea) B. Blüm

Motherhood in German women's writing of the 1970s and 1980s (PhD Wales, Swansea) E. Jeremiah

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

The impact of the Wende on contemporary German literature (PhD Edinburgh) K. Stein

Development in narrative form in recent GDR women's writing (D Phil Oxford) L. Marven

Das neue Selbstbewußtsein der Ostdeutschen in der Prosa der 90er Jahre (PhD Aberdeen) K. Langer

The role of the poet after the Wende as represented in poetry by ex-GDR poets 1989- 1995 (D Phil Oxford) R. J. Owen

Post-Wende retrospection: intellectuals reassess the GDR (PhD Nottingham) S. Pearce

Coming to terms with the Stasi: the response of writers of the former GDR to theWende (PhD St Andews) S. BrassCabaret and alternative theatre in contemporary Berlin (M Phil Sheffield) R. Bland

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

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

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

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

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

Ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe: a literary study (M Phil London, UC) H. Morrison

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

Developments and debates in GDR poetry 1961-1969 (PhD Leeds) M. Pearce

Konrad Adenauer (MA Kent) D. Senior

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

Performance and protection: profiles of Kind(heit) and Kindlichkeit in the prose of Ingeborg Bachmann (PhD Cambridge) K. M. McAuley

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

Ernst Barlach reception (PhD Wales, Swansea) C. Handford

A study of Thomas Bernhard's dramas (M Phil London, UC) I. Maliye

Communication and hope in Bernhard's later prose writings (D Phil Oxford) P. S. Darukhanawala

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

Brecht, Naturalism and Stanislavsky (PhD London, KC) V. Jones

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. BargnaReading the post-Holocaust lyric: a study of the lyric poetry of Celan, Ausländer and Sachs (PhD Cambridge) B. J. Thomson

The works of Anne Duden (PhD Warwick) T. Ludden

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

Women refugee writers: the reconstruction of identity in the work of Anna Gmeyner, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen (D Phil Sussex) A. Hammel

Günter Grass and Germany (M Litt Bristol) R. G. Pike

Grass's Die Blechtrommel and Rushdie's Midnight's Children: an analytical comparison (PhD Birmingham) D. Green

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

Patterns of conformity in the prose fiction of Christoph Hein (PhD Wales, Swansea) D. Clarke

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

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

The uses of history in the novels of Stefan Heym (PhD Cambridge) M. E. B. Tait

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

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

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

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

German nationality and identity before and after die Wende: a study of the work of Helga Königsdorf (M Phil / PhD Bath) D. Alberghini

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

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

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

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

The characterisation of women in the writings of Monika Maron, Christine Wolter and Helga Konigsdorf (PhD Limerick) D. Gaffney

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

Irmtraud Morgner (PhD Lancaster) G. PlowNarration in the fictional works of Irmtraud Morgner (PhD Nottingham) R. H. Terry

Inheritance, influence, intelligence: Irmtraud Morgner and the politics of culture (D Phil Oxford) G. E. Westgate

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

Heiner Müller (PhD Nottingham) S. Bowhill

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

The novels of Hans Erich Nossack (PhD Wales, 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

Krankheit und Tod in den Werken Markus Werners (MA NUI, Maynooth) P. Mulkeen

Fairy-tale, myth, Magical Realism as models of the transformation of the real: narrative modes in contemporary English and German prose fiction with special reference to Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Irmtraud Morgner, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie and D. M. Thomas (PhD Glasgow) U. Dapprich-Barrett

The theme of utopia in Christa Wolf's Sommerstück (PhD Salford) C. Colton

B 4 Dutch literature



Jacob van Maerlant (M Litt TCD) L. Schreel

B 6 Yiddish literature



Moyd un kale, froy un vayb: characterisation of the feminine in early eighteenth- century Yiddish chapbooks (D Phil Oxford) J. L. Dowling

Studies in the history of the Hebrew book (D Phil Oxford) B. S. Hill

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



The concept of leadership in the political and cultural discourse of 19th and 20th- century Germany (PhD Aston) K. BradshawGerman national identity (PhD Sheffield) K. Wilds

The history of the Jews of Pomerania (D Phil Sussex) S. C. J. Nicholls

Wilhelm Stekel and the early history of psychoanalysis (D Phil Sussex) F. Clark- Lowes

C 1.2 From 1900



The concept of leadership in the political and cultural discourse of 19th and 20th- century Germany (PhD Aston) K. Bradshaw

The picture of England in fin-de-siècle Vienna (PhD Aston) E. Ertl

Youth, 'nature' and 'community' in Britain and Germany 1916-1936 (PhD Birmingham) M. Mertens

Consumerism and propaganda in Germany from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s (M Phil London, UC) S. Parr

Forms of literary assent and dissent in the 20th-century German dictatorships (PhD Manchester) M. Philpotts

The history of the Jews of Pomerania (D Phil Sussex) S. C. J. Nicholls

The 'Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums' (D Phil Sussex) H. C. Soussan

Life experiences of teenage Jewish refugees from Germany (D Phil Sussex) M. Lowenberg

The Ordnungspolizei and the Holocaust (M Phil London, RH) F. Dierl

The barbarisation of the German officer corps in Russia, 1941-44 (PhD Birmingham) B. Shepherd

German Liberal Parties in transition (PhD Aberdeen) D. Langston

Comparative study of the manpower management in the aeronautical industry in Britain and Germany during the Second World War (M Phil London, RH) F. Hintzke

Austrian identity and the effects of National Socialism on political discourse (PhD Cambridge) M. Y. Kuypers

The nature and origin of democratic liberalism in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1945 (PhD Aston) M. Cupples

European police co-operation: a case study (PhD Aberdeen) A. Naughton

Comparing German and British political culture through values: an analysis of the values of health care reform (PhD Aston) D. Pritchard

A comparative study of ethnic minority groups in England and Germany (PhD Birmingham) D. Booth

Identity-generating potential of indigenous bilingualism with special reference to the promotion of Gaelic in Scotland and Sorbian in Germany (PhD Middlesex)
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Foreign direct investment: a comparison of Germany and the UK (PhD Birmingham) B. Hamburg

The Europeanisation of justice and home affairs co-operation: policy making in Britain and Germany (PhD Birmingham) P. Turnbull

Comparative study of policies for local economic development in the UK and Germany (PhD Birmingham) H. Tooze

The relationship between governments and multilateral corporations with reference to Japanese and German industry in the UK (PhD Birmingham) H. Loewendahl

The role of subnational Government in the EU policy process: the case of the structural funds in Germany, Spain and the UK (PhD Birmingham) A. Reilly

Soviet Union and foundation of West German state (PhD Birmingham) J. Bush

1968 and its effects on the development of German political culture in the 1970s and early 1980s (M Phil Birmingham) N. P. Baker

Trade union and labour relations in Germany and Poland (M Phil Sheffield) C. Annesley

Reconstructing national identity : German perceptions of Britain and the British in the inter-war period (M Phil/PhD Nottingham Trent) B. S. Jung

Social authoritiarianism and the Left (PhD Sheffield) P. Thompson

Intellectual origins and the legacy of the Free German Youth (PhD Sheffield) J. Rhys

Civil society and 'The East' in contemporary German foreign policy identity (M Phil Birmingham) J. Butcher

The conciliar process and the Wende in the GDR: the transformation of disaffection into dissent, with special reference to the Kirchenprovinz Sachsen (PhD Reading) S. Brown

Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen: a case study of political alliances in Brandenburg 1990/1994 (PhD UWE) B. Harper

Unifying German women: the effects and meaning of Unification for German women (PhD Nottingham Trent) C. A. Basten

Eastern enlargement of the EU: British, German, Czech and Polish perspectives (PhD Birmingham) M. Zaborowski

German policy formulation with regard to the eastern enlargement of the EU (PhD Birmingham) S. Collins

Germany and the eastern enlargement of NATO (PhD Birmingham) N. Thomas

Germany, the UK and the next EU enlargement (PhD Birmingham) S. Philip

German and Russian views on European security (PhD Birmingham) O. SchuttContemporary German security policy: a strategic culture approach (PhD Birmingham) K. Longhurst

Process of unification: Germany, Italy, and Europe in comparison (PhD London, UC) B. de la Serna-Lopez

The constitutional embeddedness of German European policy (M Phil Birmingham) B. Ruppert

Non-conformity amongst East German youth (M Phil London, UC) M. Fenemore

Dissent and compliance in the GDR, 1949-1961 (PhD London, UC) C. Ross

Church and State in the GDR in the 1960s (M Phil London, UC) M. Thomas

Exit, voice, loyalty and the collapse of GDR (PhD Birmingham) J. Grix

Germany's foreign cultural policy post-reunification (PhD Birmingham) M. Fleming-Froy

The PDS in the new Germany (PhD Birmingham) S. Graham

The PDS and the oppositional role: the discourse of duality (PhD Durham) M. Denison

The transformation of the PDS (PhD Birmingham / CREES) T. Oppenkowski

Contemporary visual arts in Germany, East and West, and the problem of cultural unification (PhD Birmingham) J. Hawksley

Comparison of political culture in East and West German women (M Phil Birmingham) D. Wagener

The effects of unemployment on East German women: a case study of Sachsen- Anhalt (M Phil Keele) V. A. Beck

The economic transformation of post-communist Germany: British firms in the Leipzig region (PhD Keele) K. Sucher

The development of conservative and extreme right-wing thought in Germany from the inception of the unified state to the present (PhD Birmingham) A. Statham

The effects of de-regulation upon workplace industrial relations in the New Länder: a case study of IG Metall (PhD Birmingham) S. French

Needs limits of an active labour market policy in the New Länder (PhD Birmingham) C. Nativel

Political culture and societal transformation: the case of Erfurt (PhD Birmingham) N. Hubble

Germany in the age of crisis management (PhD Birmingham) A. Hoffmann

German construction industry (PhD Birmingham) M. Clayson

The structural impact of multinational investment (PhD Birmingham) A. McLintock

Functioning of financial systems (PhD Birmingham) S. HertenGermany and civilian power (PhD Birmingham) H. Tewes

Optimum currency areas and historical monetary unions (PhD Birmingham) M. van Hoof

Lobbying, forms of representation of interests (PhD Birmingham) O. Deiters

The status of the book-medium in contemporary Germany: do the publishing industry and other institutions conceive of a particular image of the book? (M Phil Birmingham) D. Malcolm

The abolition of nature: nature and ecology in German social theory (PhD Keele) I. Blühdorn

Modernity, progression and tradition: municipal patronage and public response in the architecture of Munich, 1900-1930 (PhD Manchester) L. Jerram

Walter Benjamin and the figures of experience (PhD Leeds) L. Spencer

Oswald Spengler, Michel Foucault and the crisis of history: an exploration of the notion of history in philosophical modernity (PhD Birmingham) J. Liddle

Wilhelm Stekel and the early history of psychoanalysis (D Phil Sussex) F. Clark- Lowes

C 2 Business and management studies since 1900



Analysis of a corpus of contemporary German economics and management discourse (PhD Birmingham) A. Mackison

German business and the New Right (PhD Sheffield) D. Phillips

Ethics in purchasing (PhD London, KC) L. Preuss

C 3 The press, the media, the arts



Modernity, progression and tradition: municipal patronage and public response in the architecture of Munich, 1900-1930 (PhD Manchester) L. Jerram

Left critique of the Bildzeitung (PhD Limerick) O. Prendergast

The Double in Wilhelmine cinema 1895-1914 (PhD Warwick) R. Kiss

The standing in Great Britain of the German cinema after 1945 (PhD Reading) J. Lembach

Internationalism and German film culture, 1959-1972 (PhD UEA) T. Bergfelder

Divergent discourses: representations of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, industrial action and social groups in the East and West German press 1991-1995 (PhD Strathclyde) S. Schrabback

GDR Kulturpolitik and the cinema (PhD Reading) R. Stott

A phenomenological analysis of visual expressivity in European film (PhD Edinburgh) D. MacraeGendered and national identity in DEFA films (PhD Nottingham) J. Gregson

Female images and gender relations in DEFA films (PhD Reading) A. Rinke

Representation of young people in the films of Helmut Dziuba (M Phil/PhD UWE) G. Müller

The interplay of media: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films (PhD Edinburgh) U. Militz

Caspar David Friedrich: art, philosophy, nature and the inner self (MA Galway) S. Egan

The German state and film production: the example of Oskar Messter (PhD Reading) T. Carrozza

Nosferatu: a comparative study of Murnau's and Werner Herzog's films (PhD Edinburgh) E. V. Ballin

'Utopie Kino': on Edgar Reitz's contributions to the aesthetics of film (PhD Edinburgh) M. Sobhani

Histories, mythologies and fictions in Edgar Reitz's Heimat (PhD Manchester) R. J. Palfreyman

Alternative film mode as represented in the work of Straub-Huillet (PhD Edinburgh) U. Böser

Sound and image in Wim Wenders' films (PhD Edinburgh) A. Graf

Photography and film: their interrelation in the work of Wim Wenders (PhD Edinburgh) E. Donoghue