Rudolf Schlichter has been defined primarily as a politically-engaged artist whose works responded directly to the political and social climate of his times. He has been included in surveys and catalogues of Dada, Verism and Neue Sachlichkeit, movements identified with Germany's…
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This dissertation critically examines issues in the theory, reception and interpretation of post-World War II ethnic minority German literature, also referred to as "foreigner literature" (Auslanderliteratur) or "guestworker literature" (Gastarbeiterliteratur). The first section…
The purpose of this study is: (1) to focus on the accomplishments of women authors in exile in order to evaluate their experiences of persecution, exile and adaptation; (2) to highlight five yet undiscovered women writers by means of their autobiographical accounts; (3) to illus…
Following the defeat of the Nazi regime, Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, embarked on a new artistic venture: ethnographic photography in the Sudan. On the surface this seems a strange move, from Nuremberg party rallies to the steppes of Africa, but Riefenstahl's f…
My dissertation presents an in-depth analysis of selected texts from nineteenth-century German literature that thematize the scorn and retribution directed against individuals who deviate from the traditional standard of their particular communities—a standard that has been esta…
My dissertation explores the socio-political effect of minority literature on the Western concept of culture and its subsequent recasting of cultural boundaries. In my examination of philosophical and literary texts, my focus is on moments of literary inter- or transculturation …
This dissertation argues that a broad commonality of thematic, aesthetic and structural concerns exists in the literature of minority authors writing within contemporary contexts of migration. The texts addressed in this study, recent works in German juxtaposed to examples from …
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the significance of Thomas Mann's Joseph-novels in the shadow of Europe's decline, from the perspective of those living beyond the great world-holocaust of the early and middle century. Working outward from the focal point of the no…
Since the implementation of the Guest Worker Program in the 1950s, Germany has struggled to accept that Turkish immigrants, along with subsequent generations, constitute a large part of its society. Thilo Sarrazin's book, Deutschland schafft sich ab, which has been at the center…
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…
This study examines the religious and historical literature of the Teutonic Order, the brotherhood of warrior-monks whose northern crusade subdued and converted the eastern Baltic region during the late Middle Ages. Chapter One presents the background against which the Teutonic …
This is a study of discourse and grammar in Middle Yiddish letters from 1533, the 1560s, 1588, and 1619. These letters were chosen for study precisely because they are evidence of private communication between persons linked by previous face-to-face relationships (usually famili…
This dissertation examines the Orientalist literature of Else Lasker-Schuler, Friedrich Wolf, and Franz Werfel. The research focuses on two of Lasker-Schuler's collections of short stories and poems entitled Die Nachte Tino von Bagdads (1907) and Der Prinz von Theben (1912), Wol…
This project studies romanticism's absorption in the late eighteenth-century mythology of the Bible and demonstrates the extent to which poets came to model their work, no longer on the classical canon, but on what they believed to be the more natural and more sublime poetry of …
This research aims to explore how representations of Saudi Arabia in German travel literature, pilgrimage accounts and online media have transformed the Saudi Arabian space and its place in the European imagination. German travelers, pilgrims, and expatriates enter the foreign S…
Rationale. Stricker's Daniel von dem Bluhenden Tal is a better work than scholars usually consider it to be. The recent translation of Daniel into English now makes this MHG Arthurian romance available to a wider audience than ever before. Because previous scholarship has incorr…
The alienated soul of the German-Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schuler, divided between the real world and fantasy, her social position in Germany, and her forced emigration to Switzerland and Palestine reflect her state of constant exile. Scholarship concerned with German exile liter…
August Strindberg's To Damascus trilogy has been identified as the first expressionistic drama ever written. But Strindberg's expressionism is revealed also by certain images and intents borne out wholly or in part by theatrical elements, including setting; lighting; music; soun…