THESES IN PROGRESS 1998/99

A LANGUAGE

A 1 General linguistics

A 2 Germanic languages generally

A 3 German language

THESES IN PROGRESS 1998/99

A LANGUAGE

A 1 General linguistics

A 2 Germanic languages generally

A 3 German language

B LITERATURE

B 1 General and comparative studies

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

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

Language and cultural differences (MA Sussex) C. Graszauer

German be-verbs and the Generative Lexicon (PhD UMIST) G. A. Gupta

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

The lexical field of locomotion in English and German: a comparative synchronic and diachronic study (PhD Manchester) P. Storjohann

An investigation of temporal conceptual relations and their linguistic realization in English and German official aircraft accident reports (PhD Surrey) B. Bajaj

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

Linguistic and cultural issues in the integration of 'Rußlandsdeutsch' (M Phil Birmingham) J. Struck- Soboleva

Intercultural communication (M Phil Sheffield) J. Woodin

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

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

German 'Languages for All' provision in higher education: an evaluative case study with particular reference to student drop-out (PhD Newcastle upon Tyne)
N. Reimann

Foreign language research and its effect on Irish third-level teaching institutions (PhD NUI, Maynooth) C. Sosa

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

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

Studies in Low German texts 1500-1700 (M Phil London, RH) T. Francis

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

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

Equivalence in scientific and technical translation, with practical reference to German-English (PhD Salford) M. Krein-Kühle

Dialectology - Luxembourg (M Phil Sheffield) J. Edge

A linguistic commentary on Wulfila's Gothic translation of St. Mark's Gospel

(M Phil Birmingham) J. Sparling

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
The generation of Hellenism: the theoretical framework and the transformation of an aesthetic of the Greek land in the late 18th and 19th centuries (D Phil Oxford)
C. M. Guthenkse
The aesthetic and political philosophies of Diderot and Goethe (PhD Aberdeen)
A. Neil
The rhetoric of Goethe's Erlebnislyrik(PhD London, UC) S. Kelly
The uses and function of myth in Goethe's early works (D Phil Oxford) J. C. Jolle
Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahreas a modern novel (PhD London, KC)
A. O'Donnell
Hölderlin's philosophy of the history of religion (PhD London, KC) S. Hölscher
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
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
Bettina von Arnim as an apostle of Enlightenment: a revised reading of Clemens Brentano's Frühlingskranz(PhD Lancaster) T. H. H. Bailey
E. T. A. Hoffmann and the cult of natural magic (PhD Nottingham) R. Elliss
'Das Schöne' und 'das Erhabene' bei E. T. A. Hoffmann (PhD Reading) B. Röder
E. T. A. Hoffmann and nineteenth-century English literature (PhD Keele) P. Bauer
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. Magshamhrain
The female voice in Novalis (PhD TCD) J. Hodkinson
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg and his relation to Classicism and Romanticism (PhD Manchester) E. Joshua
Ludwig Tieck and the programmes of Romanticism (PhD Cambridge) R. A. Bown

B 3.5 1830-1890

Regionalism and the standardisation of the German language: the evidence from 16th-century custumals (PhD Leeds) I. Lamparter

An analysis of female discourse in National Socialism 1924-34 (PhD London, RH) G. Horan

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

The lexical field of locomotion in English and German: a comparative synchronic and diachronic study (PhD Manchester) P. Storjohann

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

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

Do-support and negation in the history of German (PhD Newcastle upon Tyne)
N. Langer

Language attitudes towards Standard German in the Wiesloch area (PhD Manchester) A. Morgan

Language use in Magdeburg (M Phil Newcastle upon Tyne) N. Böheim

Attitudes towards dialect in South Tyrol (PhD Durham) A. Mairhofer

Germanic dialect in the Lorraine area of France (M Phil Greenwich) S. P. Hughes

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

A comparative study of grammars of German (M Phil Birmingham) A. C. Evans

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

Britain's policy on business language training within the context of the European Union (MA Anglia) P. Connelly

Discursive constructions of Austrians and 'others' in media texts and images (PhD Bradford) E. El Refaie

Diverging discourses: ideological practices in the German media in East and West after reunification (PhD Strathclyde) S. Schrabback

Analysis of language used in a variety of German music magazines (M Phil Cork)
L. Forde

An analysis of methodological approaches to teaching literature at secondary level in Ireland (MA NUI, Maynooth) A. Lynch

An analysis of the Leaving Certificate Oral Examination in German (MA NUI, Maynooth) C. Callaghan

Vokabelarbeit im Kontext der Vermittlung deutscher Grammatik: ein empirischer Versuch (MA NUI, Maynooth) L. Lohmeier

Some literary translation problems posed by Salman 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
	B LITERATURE
	B 1 General and comparative studies Divine or diabolic causation of disease in medieval German and English literature (M Litt TCD) J. Byrne A comparative study of contemporary Swiss and Scottish literature (PhD Edinburgh) C. Laubscher Das Irlandbild in der zeitgenössischen schweizerischen Literatur (MA NUI, Maynooth) H. Hauser Aspects of French and German women's crime fiction (PhD London, QMW) N. Barfoot The throne in the forest: imagery in the Nibelungenliedand the Ramayana, with special reference to images of kingship (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 The question of madness in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmannand Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus(PhD Wales, Swansea) K. Preuß Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheimand Richardson's Clarissa: a case study in eighteenth-century Anglo-German literary relations (D Phil Oxford) R. Umbach Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf: a comparative study on their contributions to the modern novel (MSc Edinburgh) Y. Nakamuro
	B 2 German literature: general studies (incl. specific themes and genres The impact of coffee houses on literary style (PhD Edinburgh) M. Keane Konkrete Poesie (M Phil Cork) B. Griffin Reworkings in German literature (PhD Aberdeen) G. M. Sharman Postmodern German writing (M Phil Sheffield) J. Woolley Women and illness in German women's novels, 1770-1914 (D Phil Oxford) A. C. Richards
	Facing AIDS: autobiography, identity, desire, survival in German (language) literature (PhD Cambridge) A.- E. Kurth Dandyism as a principle of aesthetic composition: a study on Büchner, Kafka and Oswald Wiener (PhD Cambridge) F. M. Knapp The prose work of Hermann Burger (PhD Warwick) A. Dennis B 3 German literature
		B 3.1 To 1500
	The Trinity in selected early Middle High German poems (M Litt Stirling) C. Boultbee Blood in medieval German literature (PhD Cambridge) B. Bildhauer



	The influence of 'caritas' on the chivalric code in medieval French and German literature (M Phil Exeter) L. Chequer The theme of anger in medieval German literature (PhD London, KC) C. Magner Love declarations in medieval German narrative literature (M Phil London, KC) H. Odonkor 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 The presentation of female characters in the narrative works of Hartmann von Aue (M Phil Nottingham) A. Fiddy The depiction of and attitudes to war in Der Stricker's Karl der Großeand Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal (PhD London, KC) R. E. Kellett 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
	Writing by nuns in German in the early modern period (D Phil Oxford) C. A. Pears Zeichencarminaand Epicediacomposed for bereaved parents in the 17th century (D Phil Oxford) A. Linden The problem of the individual in the seventeenth-century novel (D Phil Oxford) R. Wieder 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 Perceptions of the Thirty Years' War in contemporary accounts and in literature (D Phil Oxford) G. Mortimer The theme of money in German literature (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel Dutch cultural influence on Brandenburg-Prussia 1640-1700 (M Phil London, UC) A. Munt Sebastian Franck's polemic pacifism: analysis of an ethical concept against 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 Glückin the narratives of Georg Wickram (PhD TCD) C. Politis
		B 3.3 The eighteenth century and the Classical Age
	German Romanticism (D Phil Oxford) M. Garrett The theme of money in German literature (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel The moral tale in France and Germany in the 18th century (PhD Exeter) K. Astbury


	The theme of money in German literature (PhD London, UC) R. Wenzel Reflectivity in the nineteenth-century Bildungsroman(M Phil London, UC) M. Potter 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 Narrative techniques in Austria (D Phil Oxford) A. Hartford 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. Clark The 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 Dialogism, character and identity in the novels of Theodor Fontane (PhD Cambridge) P. J. Bowman Gustav von Frank: Drama-Prosa-Lyrik (PhD Cork) C. Rommel A study of Friedrich Hölderlin's letters (PhD Sheffield) L. Fechner Philipp Königsmarck (PhD Bristol) J. M. Veale Nietzsche: language, rhetoric and historical interpretation (PhD Cambridge) C. J. Emden Evolution and degeneration: Nietzsche and nineteenth-century biologism (PhD Cambridge) G. Moore Arthur Schopenhauer on tragedy (D Phil Oxford) S. Krüger 'Ein eigenes Unglück': Adalbert Stifter's theory and practice of rewriting (PhD Cambridge) S. A. Strong Theodor Storm: landscape and topography (PhD Sheffield) H. G. Peters
		B 3.6 1890-1945
	Neue Sachlichkeitas an art movement (PhD Sunderland) S. Plumb The discourse of modernity and Neue Sachlichkeit(PhD Nottingham) F. Littlejohn Growing up in the Third Reich: the depiction of youth in National Socialist and exile fiction (D Phil Oxford) A. C. Schmidt-Ott Sexuality and relationships in utopian and dystopian literature (M Litt TCD) C. Ní Dhubhghaill 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

Aestheticism as cognitive disturbance: a study of English and German prose around 1900 (M Phil London, UC) K. Krosny

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

Perceptions of women in the Austrian theatre, 1912-1938 (PhD Exeter) E. E. Smith

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

Humanism and German literature of the two World Wars (PhD Keele) J. Daniels

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

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

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

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

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

Carl Einstein and the aesthetics of cubism (M Litt TCD) N. Creighton

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

Dialogism, character and identity in the novels of Theodor Fontane (PhD Cambridge) P. J. Bowman

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

The reconstruction of identity in exile literature: Anna Gmeyner, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen (D Phil Sussex) A. Hammel

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

Visionary poets in the German dictatorships: Peter Huchel and Johannes Bobrowski (PhD Manchester) N. Yuille

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

Franz Kafka (PhD Cork) M. Frendo

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

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

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

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 The lyric poetry of Karl Kraus (M Litt Edinburgh) L. Brand Else Lasker-Schüler and Edith Sitwell: a comparative study (M Phil Birmingham) C. Schalle Gertrud von Le Fort: Christian women writers and the inner emigration (D Phil Oxford) L. H. Saward The literary relationship between Klaus and Thomas Mann (M Phil Kent) F. Strath Women figures in Thomas Mann's fiction (M Phil London, UC) G. Valentine Naturwissenschaftin Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg(M Phil Oxford) M. C. W. Herwig Buddenbrooksand 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 Theodor Plievier: literature, politics and exile (D Phil Oxford) A. M. Stein Subjectivity and language in Rilke's work (PhD TCD) D. Downes Historical revelation in the work of Franz Rosenzweig (D Phil Oxford) D. S. Groiser 'Verkehrte Welt': truth, falsehood and the search for a self in the work of Joseph Roth (PhD Wales, Swansea) J. Hughes Joseph Roth as mediator between eastern European Jewry and the West (PhD Keele) A. May Questions of identity in René Schickele's Hans im Schnakenlochand Das Erbe am Rhein(PhD TCD) A. McGillicuddy The poetry of Franz Baermann Steiner (PhD London, KC) N. Ziegler Ernst Toller: from Einheitsfrontto Volksfront(PhD Stirling) J. Fotheringham Friedrich Torberg and the Jewish Kaffeehauskulturof twentieth-century Vienna (PhD London, KC) S. Hart
		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 Humanism and German literature of the two World Wars (PhD Keele) J. Daniels The presentation of a lost war: 1939-1945 in post-war West German popular prose (PhD Stirling) M. Sargeant Post-1945 Swiss drama (M Litt Bristol) M. D. Ford Forms of literary assent and dissent in the 20th-century German dictatorships (PhD Manchester) M. Philpotts Humour in Jewish writing on the Holocaust (MA NUI, Galway) M. Christie

Romanfiguren als Mütter von heranwachsenden Kindern in deutschsprachigen Romanen von Schriftstellerinnen zwischen 1970 und 1985 (M Litt Strathclyde)
S. Purshouse

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

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

'In diesem besseren Land': developments and debates in GDR poetry 1961-1969 (PhD Leeds) M. Pearce

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

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

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

GDR cultural policies of the 60s and 70s and children's literature (PhD Manchester) S. Warnecke

Wendesprache(PhD St Andrews) N. Barber

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

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

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

The Ankunft-motif in East German prose since unification (PhD Aberdeen)
K. Langer

Naive Unschuld und gewitztes Spiel: vom autobiographischen Schreibanlaß zu 'naiven' und 'pikaresken' Erzählstrategien in Texten der Nachwendeliteratur (PhD Bradford) T. Nause

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

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

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

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

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

Intertextuality in contemporary fiction (M Phil London, UC) M. Symons

Postmodern German writing (M Phil Sheffield) J. Woolley

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

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

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

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

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

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

Developments in working-class drama and the Volksstück(PhD Sheffield)
M. Karpinski

Performance and protection: profiles of Kind(heit)and Kindlichkeitin Ingeborg Bachmann's prose (PhD Cambridge) K. E. McAuley

Feminine conflicts in the works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (PhD Cork) B. Cronin

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

The dramatic texts of Konrad Bayer (PhD Cork) T. Scott

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

T. Bernhard's lyrical poetry (PhD Sunderland) D. Kelly

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

The aesthetics of Thomas Bernhard's prose (M Phil London, UC) L. Pugh

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

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

Heinrich Böll (PhD Sunderland) G. Breitenbach

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

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

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

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

Frank Castorf's political theatre (PhD Sheffield) K. Bargna

'My hope is in the East': Paul Celan's translations from Russian and their relevance in his search for a new poetic language (PhD Cambridge) A. Reali

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

Body and language: texts by Anne Duden and Elfriede Jelinek (PhD Warwick)
T. Ludden

'Mit einem Ende beginnt es und endet mit einem Anfang': history, mysticism and nature in the works of Gerd Gaiser (PhD Wales, Swansea) S. Smith

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

The motif of food in the works of Günter Grass (PhD Cork) G. Schneider

Representations of cultural encounters in the works of Günter Grass (M Phil Cork) E. Connolly

Political 'engagement' in literary works by Günter Grass and Uwe Johnson (M Phil Cork) U. Duggan

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

Taking sides: Stefan Heym's historical fiction (PhD Cambridge) M. E. B. Tait

The theme of taboo in the works 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

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

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

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 Doktor Faustus(PhD London, UC) R. Pratt

Monika Maron (M Phil Cork) K. Power

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

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

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

Narratives of knowledge in the work of Irmtraud Morgner (PhD Lancaster)
G. Plow

Personal and social identity in recent women's writing (Müller, Moníková) (PhD London, UC) S. Goodchild

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

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


	A critical study of Anna Seghers' life and career in the GDR (M Phil / PhD Bath) B. Morgan The dramas of Kerstin Specht (PhD Edinburgh) C. Reissenberger The poetry of Franz Baermann Steiner (PhD London, KC) N. Ziegler The work of Yoko Tawada (PhD Sheffield) S. Fischer The development of Christa Wolf's political thought as reflected in selected writings (MSc Edinburgh) F. Lunny Images of utopia in Christa Wolf's Sommerstück(PhD Salford) C. Colton Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf: a comparative study on their contributions to the modern novel (MSc Edinburgh) Y. Nakamuro Characterisation of the woman in the works of Christine Wolter, Monika Maron and Helga Königsdorf (PhD Limerick) D. Gaffney B 4 Dutch literature The geographical world-view of Jacob van Maerlant (M Litt TCD) L. Schreel B 6 Yiddish literature Yiddish women poets between the wars (D Phil Oxford) L. A. Jenschke 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
	German national identity (PhD Sheffield) K. Wilds
		C 1.2 From 1900
	Cosmopolitanism, nationhood and regional identity in Germany, 1800 to the present day (PhD Aston) E. Szantho Concepts of citizenship in nineteenth-century Germany (PhD London, UC) B. de la Serna-Lopez Aspects of German gender studies (M Phil Sheffield) S. Thompson Identity-generating potential of indigenous bilingualism with special reference to the promotion of Gaelic in Scotland and Sorbian in Germany (PhD Middlesex) K. Gebel Das England-Bild im Wiener Fin de Siècle(PhD Aston) E. Ertl Youth, 'nature' and 'community' in Britain and Germany 1916-1936 (PhD Birmingham) M. Mertens French-German relations during the collaboration period (PhD Sunderland)

J. Streeter

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

The barbarisation of front-line German infantry divisions in Russia, 1941-43 (PhD Birmingham) B. Shepherd

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

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

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

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

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

Youth, the Church, writers, women and the State in the GDR 1971-1989 (M Phil London, UC) J. Madarász

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

The conciliar process and the Wendein the GDR (PhD Reading) S. Brown

Unifying women? Experiences and meanings of German unification (PhD Nottingham Trent) C. A. Basten

German unification: an examination of the English and German press coverage from November 1989 to October 1990 (M Litt TCD) C. Doris

An examination of the impact of Victor Gollancz' Save the Children Projectin post-war Germany (M Litt TCD) L. Kavanagh

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

German construction industry (PhD Birmingham) M. Clayson

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

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

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

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

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

Pollution and socialism: the environment as a political issue in eastern Germany 1980-1997 (M Litt Bristol) L. R. Quinn



	Non-conformity amongst East German youth (PhD London, UC) M. Fenemore The transformation of the PDS (PhD Birmingham) T. Oppenkowski PDS women: memories of life in the GDR (PhD Bradford) P. L. Beimborn-Taylor Comparison of political culture in East and West German women (M Phil Birmingham) D. Wagener Political culture and societal transformation: the case of Erfurt (PhD Birmingham) N. Hubble Foreign direct investment: a comparison of Germany and the UK (PhD Birmingham) B. Hamburg Comparative study of policies for local economic development in the UK and Germany (PhD Birmingham) H. Tooze Economic transformation and British investment in East Germany (PhD Keele) K. Sucher Germany's foreign cultural policy post-reunification (PhD Birmingham) M. Fleming-Froy The constitutional embeddedness of German European policy (M Phil Birmingham) B. Ruppert Eastern enlargement of the EU: British, German, Czech and Polish perspectives (PhD Birmingham) M. Zaborowski Germany, the UK and the next EU enlargement (PhD Birmingham) S. Philip Germany and the eastern enlargement of NATO (PhD Birmingham) N. Thomas German and Russian views on European security (PhD Birmingham) O. Schütt European police co-operation: a case study (PhD Aberdeen) A. Naughton 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 Lobbying, forms of representation of interests (PhD Birmingham) O. Deiters The construction of identity in the Land Hessen(PhD London, UC) S. Parr German Liberal Parties in transition (PhD Aberdeen) D. Langston A critical review of Konrad Adenauer's final years in office (MA Kent) D. Senior
	C 2 Business and management studies since 1900 German business and the New Right (PhD Sheffield) D. Phillips Ethics in purchasing (PhD London, KC) L. Preuss Britain's policy on business language training within the context of the European Union (MA Anglia) P. Connelly German corporate culture across linguistic and national borders (PhD Aston) N. O'Mahony



	Analysis of a corpus of contemporary German economics and management discourse (PhD Birmingham) A. Mackison
	C 3 The press, the media, the arts The LiedTheory of the First Berlin School (1753-68) (PhD Bristol) L. James Diverging discourses: ideological practices in the German media in East and West after reunification (PhD Strathclyde) S. Schrabback German unification: an examination of the English and German press coverage from November 1989 to October 1990 (M Litt TCD) C. Doris Left critique of Bildzeitungin the 1970s (PhD Limerick) O. Prendergast The internet and European culture (PhD Sunderland) C. Mansfield Der britische Löwe: ein Vorbild für den deutschen Michel? Das stereotype Englandbild in deutschen Zeitschriften zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen (PhD Nottingham Trent) B. S. Jung Sight, sense and screen: the phenomenology of vision in European avant-garde film (PhD Edinburgh) D. Macrae Doppelgängerin early cinema (MSc Edinburgh) B. Rashidi The Double in Wilhelmine cinema, 1895-1914 (PhD Warwick) R. Kiss Dracula's descendants: on the genealogy of an archetype of West-European and American cinema (PhD Edinburgh) R. Man Gendered and national identity in DEFA films (PhD Nottingham) J. Gregson The standing in Great Britain of the German cinema after 1945 (PhD Reading) J. Lembach The reception of American and West German films in the GDR 1970-1989 (PhD Reading) R. Stott 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 NUI, Galway) S. Egan Nosferatu: a comparative study of Murnau's and Werner Herzog's films (PhD Edinburgh) E. V. Ballin 'Utopie Kino': on Edgar Reitz' contributions to the aesthetics of film (PhD Edinburgh) M. Sobhani The films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle 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