Browsing by Subject "German"
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Anglicisms in German radio media: A comparative study of the public service and private broadcasting sector
(NUI Galway, 2020-03-02)This thesis investigates the usage of anglicisms as mobile linguistic resources in both public service and private radio media in Germany. In previous research on anglicisms not much attention has been given to the medium ... -
Dream islands within the fabric of poetic consciousness – reverie, dream and dreamlikeness in Robert Walser’s Berlin novels 'Geschwister Tanner' and 'Jakob von Gunten'
(2015-10-27)This dissertation reconstructs firstly the dreamlikeness which determines Walser’s two Berlin novels Geschwister Tanner and Jakob von Gunten, and secondly a poetology of the denoted dream texts (representations of dreams) ... -
Erschriebene Heimat - Erinnerungen an Kindheit und Jugend in der DDR und im Nachwendedeutschland von AutorInnen der Jahrgänge 1964-1976
(2013-04-23)The memory of childhood and youth in the former GDR and growing up in Germany after the 'Wende' is a prominent topic of contemporary German literature. Young East German authors like Jana Hensel, Daniel Wiechmann, Claudia ... -
“I am coming!” Returning to the Womb in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin and Michael Haneke’s Film La Pianiste
(German Studies Association of Ireland, 2010)Elfriede Jelinek‟s Die Klavierspielerin (1983), 1 a novel about a piano teacher (Erika Kohut) at the Vienna conservatory in her late thirties who still lives with her mother in a small flat, deconstructs and anatomises ... -
Paddy goes to Europe: Representations of Ireland in the German press and travel writing 1973-2010
(NUI Galway, 2021-01-19)Abstract This investigation examines and comments on German representations of Ireland in a variety of discourses from German press and travel writing between 1973 and 2010. In three content chapters, German perceptions ... -
Vineta: the Vineta 'Sage' and its reception in German literary texts from the 1820s to 1989
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-21)The dissertation explores the myth of the sunken city of Vineta, supposedly destroyed in the twelfth century, and its reception in German literature from the 1820s to the late twentieth century. It analyses the reports in ... -
Writing through the trauma of her past: Patterns of repression and a fragmented sense of self in the literature of Christa Wolf
(2017-09-08)This project aims to offer a re-evaluation of the literature of Christa Wolf and change the focus of the questions posed in relation to her literary legacy. Shifting the focus away from a denouncement of her character and ...