Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Schmidt-Hannisa, Hans-Walter"
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Dream islands within the fabric of poetic consciousness – reverie, dream and dreamlikeness in Robert Walser’s Berlin novels 'Geschwister Tanner' and 'Jakob von Gunten'
Drabent, Dagmar (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
Warchold, Katja (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 ... -
“No Mind to Lose”? A critical analysis of late 20th-century fantasies of neuroscience and digital media
Mazurek, Daniel Charles (NUI Galway, 2023-08-21)The shadow of Cartesian dualism still lingers over the intellectual and imaginative landscape of the West. Increasingly, over the past half-century, its presence has delineated the contours of material development, as ... -
Paddy goes to Europe: Representations of Ireland in the German press and travel writing 1973-2010
Thomsen, Aideen (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 ... -
"Sie war; sie wurde; sie wurde nichts." Weiblichkeit, Trauma und Suizid in Texten von Arthur Schnitzler, Ingeborg Bachmann und Peter Handke
Klapper, Simone (2014-02-14)This study investigates the literary presentation of female suicide in Schnitzler's 'Fräulein Else', Bachmann's 'Das Buch Franza' and Handke's 'Wunschloses Unglück', prose texts situated in a period from the beginning to ... -
Vineta: the Vineta 'Sage' and its reception in German literary texts from the 1820s to 1989
O Broin, Máire (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 ...