German Studies Theses and Dissertations

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Anagram––Atithi––Anarchy, Sub Rosa, German Imperialism

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Description:: Abstract of “Anagram––Atithi––Anarchy, Sub Rosa, German Imperialism” by Miriam Rainer, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2022 How to live together in the afterlife of a German …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Rainer, Miriam (creator); Schestag, Thomas (Advisor); Mendicino, Kristina (Reader); Gandhi, Leela (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Philology; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975; Postcolonial Studies; Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961; Unica Zürn; Suzanne Césaire; Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919; Raqs Media Collective; Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924; Anagrams; German Imperialism
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Aussetzung und Resignifizierung. Suspensionen kolonialer Zugriffslogik in Mexiko, den Tropen und Deutsch-Südwestafrika

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Description:: The central query of this dissertation concerns the suspension (Aussetzung) of Western colonial concepts that occurs in the face of those who are to be …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Solass, Pasqual (creator); Mendicino, Kristina (Advisor); Schestag, Thomas (Reader); Szendy, Peter (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Colonialism; Unica Zürn; German Empire; Suspension; Jakobus Marengo; Morenga, Jakob, -1907; Orla Holm; Ralph Zürn; Maharero, Samuel, approximately 1854-1923; Witbooi, Hendrik, -1905; Schatz der Sierra Madre (Traven, B.); Dauthendey, Max, 1867-1918; Sayak Valencia; Dorothea Strohal
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Being-in-Hotel: The Threshold of Hospitality in Three German Modernist Novels

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Description:: This thesis traces the setting of the hotel and its (im)possibilities in three German-language novels published between 1920 and 1930: "Menschen im Hotel" by Vicki …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Barron, Cecilia R. (creator); Mendicino, Kristina (thesis advisor); Brown University. German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Modernism
Language:: English
Collection:: German Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Clouds: Walter Benjamin and the Rhetoric of the Image

Description:: This dissertation examines the central concept of the “image” in Walter Benjamin’s oeuvre, with particular attention to the recurrence of the figure of the cloud …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Powers, Michael (creator); Richter, Gerhard (Director); Bernstein, Susan (Reader); McLaughlin, Kevin (Reader); Sng, Zachary (Reader); Brown University. German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Image; Walter Benjamin; Medium; Media; Language; Cloud; Vision; Benjamin, Walter > 1892-1940
Language:: English
Collection:: German Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Die Berührung der Toten: Geschichte und Performanz in Heiner Müllers Dramatik

Description:: This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of Heiner Müller’s dramatic work, focusing not only on the depiction of history in his texts and stage productions …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Dettmer, Katrin (creator); Poore, Carol (Director); Kniesche, Thomas (Reader); Steinberg, Michael (Reader); Brown University. German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Heiner Müller; theatre; trauma; GDR; History; Performance; Drama; Theater; Germany
Language:: German
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Gegen Onto/anthro/typologie: Karikatur, Charakter und Wortspiel bei Lenz, Marx und Goethe

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Description:: In my dissertation, I perform readings of key texts of the named authors, to show how they open up the notion of what constitutes the …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Obst, Christian (creator); Bernstein, Susan (Advisor); Schestag, Thomas (Reader); Sng, Zachary (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Enlightenment; German literature; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Metaphysics; Deconstruction; Materialism; Sturm und Drang movement; Philosophy of law; Communism; Aristotle; Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold, 1751-1792; Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
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Genre and National Identity in German Romanticism

Description:: Inspired by a desire to foreground under-researched women Romantics of the German tradition, I perform careful close readings of a constellation of authors (Bettine von …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Galasso, Stephanie (creator); Bernstein, Susan (Advisor); Mendicino, Kristina (Reader); Sng, Zachary (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Germany; Romanticism; Nationalism; Lyric poetry; Nineteenth century; Feminism; German literature; Günderode, Karoline von, 1780-1806; Arnim, Bettina von, 1785-1859; Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Literary form
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Mourning (M)Others: Images of a Maternal Education

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Description:: This dissertation proposes the concept of a 'maternal education' as counterpart to both the established genre of the 'Bildungsroman' and the Freudian narrative of a …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Haubrich, Rebecca (creator); Bernstein, Susan (Advisor); Sng, Zachary (Reader); Schestag, Thomas (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Photography; Romanticism; Education; German literature; Psychoanalysis; Motherhood; Bildungsromans
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Nebeneinander, Miteinander, Querfeldein: Johann Peter Hebel - Walter Benjamin - W.G. Sebald

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Description:: My dissertation is entitled “Nebeneinander, Miteinander, Querfeldein: Johann Peter Hebel—Walter Benjamin—W.G. Sebald.” and identifies the subversive and salvific potential in proliferating paratactic constructions in Johann …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Brand, Benjamin M. W. (creator); Schestag, Thomas (Director); Sng, Zachary (Reader); Richter, Gerhard (Reader); Brown University. German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Johann Peter Hebel; Walter Benjamin; W.G. Sebald; German literature; Hebel, Johann Peter > 1760-1826; Benjamin, Walter > 1892-1940; Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg) > 1944-2001
Language:: English
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Nichtig-Notable: Widersprüche und Korrespondenzen im Sprechen mit Tisch in Text und Film

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Description:: Tables are standing, unassuming and overlooked, in between most interactions in our society, and shape even digital exchanges as tablets and desktops. My dissertation Nichtig-Notable. …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Lange, Daniel (creator); Schestag, Thomas (Advisor); Sng, Zachary (Reader); Mendicino, Kristina (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Virgil; Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811; Translation studies; Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966; Ponge, Francis; Tables; Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975; Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976; Valentin, Karl, 1882-1948; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Richter, Gerhard, 1932-; Heiner Müller
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Poetics of Translation: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Yoko Tawada

Description:: This study investigates how practices of and poetic experiments with translation are fundamentally ingrained in the writings of Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Yoko Tawada who have …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Maehl, Silja (creator); Sng, Zachary (Director); Bernstein, Susan (Reader); Redfield, Marc (Reader); Schestag, Thomas (Reader); Brown University. German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt; Yoko Tawada; translation; Goldschmidt, Georges-Arthur > 1928-; Tawada, Yōko > 1960-
Language:: English
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Poetiken der Sorge bei Goethe, Heidegger und Kafka [Poetics of Care in Goethe, Heidegger, and Kafka]

Description:: The two questions that guided the proposed readings in Goethe, Heidegger, and Kafka were: in what ways does care, in its particular temporal, logico-eccentric nature, …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Tabor, Jan Georg (creator); Richter, Gerhard (Advisor); Mendicino, Kristina (Reader); Bernstein, Susan (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: literary field; Intentionality (Philosophy)
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Sottises and Narration: The Shandeism of Thinking; or, the Poetic Contestation of Thought

Description:: This dissertation explores Édouard Glissant’s “Poetics of Relation” and Heidegger’s notion of one’s dwelling poetically to prompt a study of the extent to which these …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Harris, Justin William (creator); Mendicino, Kristina (Advisor); Richter, Gerhard (Reader); Schestag, Thomas (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Poetics; Philosophy in literature; Meaning (Philosophy); Language and languages; German poetry; Thought and thinking; Reading; Literary translation; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784; Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976; Narration (Rhetoric); Soties; Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence); Jacques le fataliste et son maître (Diderot, Denis); Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von); Also sprach Zarathustra (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm); Menschliches, allzumenschliches (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm); Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768; Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011 (Glissant, Édouard, 1928-); Republic of Letters (Society); Fröhliche Wissenschaft (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm)
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The Gap in "Green Germany": A Silence in German Environmental Justice Activist Discourse

Description:: German environmental activism and scholarship seems to interpret "environmental justice" differently than it is used in the US, where the term originated. Strikingly, German activists …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Howe, Olivia (creator); Sng, Zachary (thesis advisor); Wetts, Rachel (reader); Roberts, J. Timmons (reader); Brown University. German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Interviews; Germany; Environmental justice; Activism
Language:: English
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Unclaimed Language: The Literary Criticism of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno

Description:: “Unclaimed Language” examines the epistolary debates and philosophical tensions between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, focusing on their divergent understandings of language and literary …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Johannssen, Dennis (creator); Richter, Gerhard (Advisor); Schestag, Thomas (Reader); Bernstein, Susan (Reader); Brown University. Department of German Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Critical theory; Literary theory; Continental philosophy; Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940; Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969; Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany); Philology; Aesthetics; Frankfurt school of sociology
Collection:: German Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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