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  • The ecological voice in recent German-Swiss prose 

    Liston, Andrew Adams (University of St Andrews, 2005-03) - Thesis
    This thesis seeks to investigate the ecological theme in German-Swiss prose of the last thirty years. The role of nature has understandably always been significant in Swiss literature. In a nation that has eked out its ...

  • The representation of male figures in the fiction of Irmtraud Morgner 

    Strauss, Werner (University of St Andrews, 2004-07) - Thesis
    This study describes and analyses the treatment of male characters in the work of the East German author, Irmtraud Morgner. The main focus of the thesis is on Morgner’s handling of masculinity in relation to her treatment ...

  • The portrayal of childhood in German fiction from Keller to Carossa 

    Berneaud, Jean Margaret (University of St Andrews, 1947) - Thesis
    The middle of the 19th century marks a stage in the development of childhood portrayal in German literature. But to take Keller as a starting point rather than Gotthelf, is to recognize in the former the deliberate ...

  • The fairy tale on the old Viennese stage 

    Crosby, Claire Darryl (University of St Andrews, 1987) - Thesis
    The thesis deals with fairy tales on the Viennese stage and their narrative sources from the beginning of the eighteenth century to 1848. In the introductory chapter a statistical analysis of fairy tales illustrates that ...

  • Tyranny and tragedy : paradigms of surveillance in Theodor Storm’s Aquis submersus and Carsten Curator 

    White, Michael James (2016-11-28) - Journal article
    Theodor Storm’s Novellen Aquis submersus (1876) and Carsten Curator (1878) stand out from other nineteenth-century representations of surveillance because of their intensity. Surveillance dominates the relationships between ...

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