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Utopia in the age of Realism : Theodor Fontane's Quitt
(2018-01-30) - Journal articleThe principal argument of this essay is that Theodor Fontane’s Quitt (1890) can be read as a critical engagement with utopianism. Quitt has previously been analysed as a utopian novel in a narrow sense, specifically because ... -
On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
(University of St Andrews, 2014-09) - ThesisThis thesis identifies strategies of queer/irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The ... -
Narrative and the body in uniform : East German military masculinities in Claus Dobberke’s Ein Katzensprung and Jürgen Fuchs’s Fassonschnitt
(2015-01) - Journal articleThis article explores the relationship between body and uniform as one of two competing narratives of masculinity. Literature and film depicting the Nationale Volksarmee of East Germany (NVA) present uniform's narrative ... -
The ecological voice in recent German-Swiss prose
(University of St Andrews, 2005-03) - ThesisThis 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
(University of St Andrews, 2004-07) - ThesisThis 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 ...
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