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Germanic Languages and Literatures: Dissertations

2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1997 - 1995

2007 DISSERTATIONS

Kadar, Naomi Prawer (2007) Far di kinders vegn : Yiddish periodicals for American children, 1917-1950

Miller, Matthew David (2007) Literary forms of dialectics in the works of Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller

Weston, Robert (2007) The pedagogical revolution : Karl Philipp Mortiz, philanthropismus and the politics of educational reform 1776-1789

2006 DISSERTATIONS

Dupree, Mary (2006) Playing against type : 'acress-writers' in German literature and culture, 1775-1815

Fore, Devin Alden (2006) All the Graphs : Soviet and Weimar documentary between the wars

Villas Bôas, Luciana (2006) Travel writing and religious dissent : Hans Staden's Warhaftig Historia in print

2005 DISSERTATIONS

Margolis, Rebecca (2005) Yiddish literary culture in Montreal, 1905-1940

Miller, Marc (2005) The poetics of the immigrant experience : Morris Rosenfeld's sweatshop poetry

Piper, Andrew (2005) Moveable type : literature and communication in the early nineteenth century

2002 DISSERTATIONS

Maurer, Kathrin (2002) Representing history : literary realism and historicist prose in nineteenth-century Germany

Reese, Diana (2002) Cataclysm of the natural form in the literary work of Mary Shelley and Heinrich von Kleist

Schwartz, Peter (2002) After Jena : historical notes on Goethe's Elective Affinities

Von Moltke, Dorothea (2002) Freedom and failure : an exploration of the laconic as subjectivity and aesthetics

2001 DISSERTATIONS

Holzhey, Christoph F. E. (2001) Paradoxical pleasures in aesthetics masophobia, sexual difference, and E. T. A. Hoffmann's Kater Murr

Lehnartz, Sascha (2001) Spektakel und Spekulation : Walter Benjamins Pariser passagen und die Geburt des modernen Kapitalismus aud dem Geiste des Spiels

Warnke, Bettina (2001) Reforming the New YOrk Yiddish theater : the cultural politics of immigrant intellectuals and the Yiddish press, 1887-1910

Weiser, Keith Ian (2001) The politics of Yiddish : Noyekh Prilutski and the Folkspartey in Poland, 1900-1926

2000 DISSERTATIONS

Kellman, Ellen (2000) The newspaper novel in the Jewish Daily Forward, 1900-1940 : fiction as entertainment and serious literature

Tang, Chenxi (2000) Writing world history : the emergence of modern global consciousness in the late eighteenth century, 1760-1790

1999 DISSERTATIONS

Powell, Larson (1999) The nature of history : society and subjectivity in modern German literature

Skolnik, Jonathan (1999) "Who learns history from Heine?" : the German-Jewish historical novel as cultural memory and minority culture, 1824-1953

1997 DISSERTATIONS

Musselman, Cecelia Anne (1997) Finnish medial clusters of two consonants : phonotaxis and history

Oesmann, Astrid (1997) Revealing gestures : the modern subject between enlightenment discourse and dramatic form

Schwarz, Jan (1997) "When the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap" : a study of the Yiddish literary autobiography

1995 DISSERTATIONS

Pan, David Tse-chien (1995) Modernist steps toward a primitivist aesthetic : Carl Einstein and the primitivism of Friedrich Nietzsche, Wassily Kandinsky, and Franz Kafka