This study examined the beliefs and opinions of U.S university students towards learning foreign languages. Four major areas were explored, including attitudes and motivations towards learning foreign languages, perceptions of foreign languages in the U.S., and favorability of A…
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My thesis explores the problematics of Romantic representation from the perspective of the German notions of Vorstellung (inner vision, transcendent interpretation) and Darstellung (visual and/or verbal representation). I develop the paradigm of complementarity that underlies th…
My dissertation compares British, German, and French Romantic drama, emphasizing women writers' plays about female combatants in the French Revolution. The term French Revolutionary Theater denotes an extended metaphor for examining the drama of death, war, and political protest…
This dissertation examines the intersections between marginalized sexualities and other modes of alterity in German culture. Looking at texts from a range of subcultural counternarratives, I investigate the ways in which the invocation of multiple alterities can displace, transf…
In my dissertation, I compare translations of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice into three languages: German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The Merchant of Venice was chosen for this project because its translations are particularly demonstrative of the attempt to create national (mod…
This work traces the origins, development and operation of the Ha'avarah Agreement (Transfer Agreement) signed between German and Palestinian Jews and the Nazi Administration in 1933 to facilitate the orderly and legal transfer of sequestered German-Jewish wealth to Palestine. N…
This research examined the LS differences and similarities of 905 German students compared with a cohort of 1,637 counterparts from five countries—Bermuda, Brunei, Hungary, New Zealand, and Sweden. The appropriate language version of the Learning Style Inventory (LSI) (Dunn, Dun…
Historical linguistics has no generally accepted methodology for statistically estimating whether the connections it documents between languages are coincidental or statistically significant (likely to reflect historical realities). Currently the best proposals are very suscepti…
Protean and irrepressible as its own protagonists, the picaresque genre re-surfaces periodically throughout literary history, always reflecting its cultural, temporal and geo-political surroundings. In this dissertation, I demonstrate how three contemporary German and Austrian a…
Whilst the theme of the influence of one culture upon another has always been regarded as a legitimate subject of literary study, that of the image of one culture reflected within the literature of another culture has not. M-F. Guyard appears to have been the first critic to dra…
The project examines how German- and English-speaking translators of selected Maigret novels by the Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon have dealt with cultural and linguistic specificity, with a view to shedding light on how culture and language translate. Following a survey o…
My dissertation focuses on the performativity of gender identity projected in German literary works around 1800. I focus on the one hand on definitions of essential femininity, and on the other hand, on the way these definitions are called into question through the strategies of…
The German Heimat, so profoundly evocative of serenity and a sense of intimate belonging, could be said to come into its ‘own’ only when it threatens to become ‘other,’ that is, only when it is poised in opposition to the unprecedented threat of alienation and fragmentation brou…
This thesis asks after the theological function of the doctrine of the divine attributes and of the divine glory in the theology of Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel and Wolf Krötke. The doctrines together describe the multiplicity of attributes in God as short-hand ways of recounting…
This dissertation is a reading of literary texts from 1990-2005 by four authors of immigrant extraction in Germany and Scandinavia. I ask how these authors engage in both a reality of multiculturalism and a discourse of multiculturalism. The project is organized around the tensi…
This study sought to facilitate the incorporation of Standards 8 and 9 of the National Standards for Music Education into the high school choral classroom. It was intended to remedy the problem that such Standards are frequently neglected in music performance classes. As such, i…
How can readers identify a text as being "Jewish" if there is no Jewish language? How can they explain the term "Jewish literature" if there is no Jewish nation and if an author can declare himself Jewish while denying any relationship to Judaism? This study seeks to clarify a J…
At the end of the eighteenth century in Europe, the question of whether Asian philosophies should be included in the general history of philosophy became a matter of renewed debate. A broad campaign began within academic philosophy to reform the discipline of the history of phil…
American and German educational systems have both experienced an increase of ethnic groups in the classrooms; however, in both countries the increase in ethnic groups is not matched by increases in the numbers of minority teachers (NEA, 2005). Therefore, challenges such as inter…