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    • The (Literary) Special Effect: (Inter)Mediality in the Contemporary US-American Novel and the Digital Age 

      Kazur, Bogna (2020-11-20)
      In order to identify new forms and practices of novel-based intermediality, the study proceeds from a necessarily broad understanding of film culture in the digital age. One essential point is that film arrives at a new ...
    • Anaphoric Dependencies in Spanish and European Portuguese: A Minimalist Analysis 

      Weingart, Anja (2020-09-08)
      This thesis elaborates on a Minimalist, Agree-based analysis of the lexical and morphosyntactic factors that constrain sentence-internal anaphoric relations in the standard varieties of Peninsular/Castilian Spanish and ...
    • Die Glossen in der arabischen Dioskurides-Übersetzung des Ms. Paris, BnF, arabe 2849. Teiledition und Analyse romanischer und lateinischer Elemente 

      Lübke, Mailyn (2020-09-08)
      The main aim of this dissertation is to edit and comment upon numerous glosses containing Romance and Latin lexical vocabulary from the first two books (maqālāt) of the Arabic version of Dioscorides’ Materia Medica found ...
    • Romane als Sittenlehren - Zum Verhältnis zwischen galantem und empfindsamem Roman 

      Züll, Stephanie (2020-08-31)
      Calculation and superficiality versus sensitivity and subjectivity – over the course of the 20th century, the field of literature has constructed this opposition to delineate the relationship between literary gallantry and ...
    • Serialität der Romanhefte 

      Lorenz, Björn (2020-08-07)
      German dime novels (in German: Romanhefte) are a rare opportunity for scholars of German literature, to study their serial narrative forms and variants. In the past the German research only focused on the didactically and ...
    • Dachmarke Literatur 

      Löher, Carolin (2020-03-09)
      In 1986, the first House of Literature (Literaturhaus) opened in Berlin, a literary mediation actor with a year-round offer and a permanent location. Further foundations followed in other cities – from 2005 also in ...
    • The Interpretation of it-Clefts 

      Pavlovic, Anna-Christina (2020-01-06)
      This dissertation addresses the interpretation of it-clefts in German, as well as that of the related focus structure of Hungarian pre-verbal focus, and presents novel answers to several research gaps. It-clefts are ...
    • Poetik des autobiografischen Blogs 

      Michelbach, Elisabeth (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 

      Ingelmann, Julian (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 

      Spanghero, Sara (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 

      Wöhler-von Treskow, Isabelle (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 

      Nuhbalaoglu, Derya (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 

      Heine, Philipp David (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 

      Krason, Viktoria (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 

      Stamatopoulos, Konstantinos (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 

      Rößler, Stefanie (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 

      Böhnisch, Genia (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 

      Bailey, Denise (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 

      Ella, Jan-Erik (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 

      Fitz, Victoria (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 ...