german culture

In my dissertation I examine the ways in which the concept of authorship, and its related discourses of authority, control, and artistic value, were destabilized by the introduction of the new film medium. Film not only represented collaborative work on an unprecedented scale, i…

In my dissertation I analyze Wolframs von Eschenbach's Willehalm and Parzival with regards to the tangible appropriation of elements of Saracen culture. I explore the phenomenon in order to derive through literary analysis a model which which to describe the complex engagement w…