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Poetik des autobiografischen Blogs
(2020-01-03)As poetics of the blog this study combines a theoretical approach (Poetologie) with different showcases of autobiographical writing in blogs (Schreibweisen). Poetologie focuses initially on the medium of the blog, which ... -
Die Wortkrieger des Web 2.0
(2019-12-19)In the age of digitalization, numerous actors take part in the literary field that previously only played a role as a “quiet consumer”. Many of them organize themselves in writing forums, where they publish their texts and ... -
Sea Changes: Representations of Fluid Adolescences Through Literature and Cinema
(2019-09-20)The research carried out in the present study comprises the media of literature and cinema, and it covers a timespan of about six decades, roughly starting from the beginning of the twentieth century. The two main foci of ... -
Generation Tahrir
(2019-07-11)On January 25th, 2011 people in Egypt started to demonstrate for a reform of the Ministry of Interior and the Police Forces. These nation-wide demonstrations quickly turned into a call for an overall political reform, which ... -
Comprehension and production of referential expressions in German Sign Language and Turkish Sign Language: An empirical approach
(2019-07-03)Localization, which corresponds to the spatial anchoring of referents to the signing space, functions as a very powerful, yet not necessarily obligatory, device to track referents and maintain coherence in the discourse ... -
Die Literatur und der Kampf um die Weltanschauung
(2019-06-06)This study is dedicated to the interdependence of ideological arguments and literary production in the early 20th century. Its starting point is the hardly proven claim that there is a close connection between literature ... -
Günter Grass und die bildende Kunst
(2019-05-24)Prior to embarking on his literary career Günter Grass had studied visual arts from 1948 to 1955. Modelling and drawing would accompany his writings thereafter, with drawings and sculptures, metaphors and allegories mingling ... -
Embracing the Occult: Magic, Witchcraft, and Witches in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
(2018-11-30)This dissertation discusses magic and the persons who practise witchcraft from an intertextual perspective and concentrates primarily on literary depictions of witches and magic. The two underlying questions which constantly ... -
Komposita-Erstglieder – Untersuchungen zur anaphorischen Zugänglichkeit
(2018-11-14)Pronominal references to the first constituent of compounds are usually considered unacceptable and the first constituents are therefore described as inaccessible. This thesis argues for a scale for acceptability and ... -
Interaktion und Interpretation in russischsprachigen Threads
(2018-10-08)The following dissertation deals with issues concerning interaction and interpretation in russian forum threads and compares the findings with results and assumptions made for oral communication. Important questions are : ... -
A grammar of Gawraǰū Gūrānī
(2018-10-01)This study is a detailed grammatical description of the Gūrānī language as used in the village of Gawraǰū, located near the town of Gahvāre in the province of Kermānšāh, Iran. Gūrānī is genetically classified as a North-West ... -
Through Fiction's Mirror
(2018-09-05)This dissertation analyses how neo-Victorian fiction seizes upon 19th century taboo topics such as sexuality or gender. By examining key texts ranging from novellas to graphic novels and applying Julia Kristeva's concept ... -
Life after Harry
(2018-08-15)Do novels like Inkheart, Twilight, Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games, or Ruby Red share specific genre characteristics with Harry Potter? Is there perhaps even a specific genre of post-Potter literature? This thesis discusses ... -
Language Change and (Ir)regularization
(2018-04-24)For the last two decades, three main approaches have dealt with the nature of regular versus irregular aspects of language processing in human mind. According to connectionism, all inflected forms are processed in the ... -
Struktur und Entwicklung der dialektalen Variation in der Campania
(2018-02-23)This dissertation deals with current matters of Italian linguistic geography and variational linguistics with regard to the South Italian region of Campania. Its contribution to scientific research is twofold: On the basis ... -
Text und Kontext des al-Wāqidī zugeschriebenen Futūḥ aš-Šām: Ein Beitrag zur Forschungsdebatte über frühe futūḥ-Werke
(2017-12-12)The book Futūḥ al-Shām which is commonly ascribed in the scholarship to the distinguished historian of the 8th and early 9th centuries Muḥammad b. 'Umar al-Wāqidī (d. 207/823), has been considered for more than two centuries ... -
It's all about suspense
(2017-05-30)Suspense is widely used by the arts in general and by literature in particular to attract readers and spectators. However, for contemporary rhetoric, aesthetics and literary theory suspense is only of minor interest, while ... -
Texte für das Theaterspiel von Kindern und Jugendlichen im ‚Dritten Reich‘
(2017-05-08)The field of stage plays for children and adolescents in National Socialist Germany has been a mostly neglected research topic. This dissertation aims to fill that research gap, at least partially, by introducing and ... -
Et poetis ipsis necessarium argentum / Humanistische Selbstdarstellungsstratgein auf dem Konzil von Konstanz
(2017-04-04)In my dissertation, I analyse humanist self-fashioning strategies through 15th-century examples. The examples discussed can be tied to the Council of Constance as a historical event. My aim is the analysis of the representation ... -
Die Verzeitlichung des Lebens und die Emergenz moderner Generationalität bei Freytag, Stifter, Lermontov und Dostoevskij
(2017-03-16)This comparative study takes Reinhart Koselleck's theory of Verzeitlichung (temporalization) as a point of departure for a new perspective on the emergence of modern generationality in the 19th century. Regarding four major ...