<p>The following thesis pertains to five short stories written by the German author, Martin Walser. I have translated these works into English. The first four short stories, "Ein Flugzeug über dem Haus", "Ich suchte eine Frau", "Der Umzug", and "Die letzte Matinee", are part of a collection originally entitled Ein Flugzeug libel' dem Haus which was published in 1955. Although I had previously translated "Del' Umzug" for a graduate course, I have made considerable changes and improvements in this newly revised translation and therefore have decided to include it too with these other stories. The last story, "Bolzer, ein Familienleben", was part of a second collection put into print nine years later under the title Lügemzeschichten.</p> <p>Finally, I have critically analysed these five short stories in an essay, by explaining Walser's main concern of the depersonalized social collective and by examining Walser's style and how he emphatically expresses through language the grotesqueness of the anitsocial attitude of the collective.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>In his writing and his theoretical essays on literature Alfred Doblin tries to find a way to understand the inner reality of the human being. As we see in his early prose works from 1896-1903, he tries to show the individual's hopeless battle against his natural dependence on his basic drives. Doblin concludes that the human being is neither free to make rational decisions nor to able to love because of his dependency on the determining drives. In the following years Doblin in his essays tries to answer the question as to how, through literature, he might come closer to understanding and describing the real dependence of the human being has on unconscious forces, but we find his first attempts at this discussion linked to basic questions about the condition of human life, in his very first works of fiction.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This thesis will consider the serious side of Lessing's play Minna von Barnhelm by focusing on the figure of Major von Tellheim. It is important to note that we will assess the work as a serious rather than as a tragic comedy. It is not the tragic but rather the potentially tragic nature of Tellheim's dilemma which we will consider. In order that this study present as complete a picture as a master's thesis will allow, both popular and controversial views of this character will be examined. In this way we hope not only to show how critics have dealt with the major in the past, but also to indicate the direction in which modern research seems to be moving as scholars continue to scrutinize this most compelling figure.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

Master of Arts (MA)

<p>Marie Luise Kaschnitz continues to be almost unknown in North America despite her status in Germany as an important poet and writer. Writing through and after the worst years of modern German history, the political depravity of the thirties and forties and the physical devastation of t he war years and their aftermath, Kaschnitz told stories involving characters in various states of denial, isolation and alienation. Her characters are awakened by some cathartic event and then react to that awakening in different ways. In "The Sleepwalker" a woman made aware of the ugliness around herself throws herself before a truck. In "Life After Death" a near-death experience transforms two girls in opposite ways . A listening audience, in "The Violinist, " is unable, or refuses to hear the healing message in a musician's performance . The husband and wife, in "Polar Bears, " attempt to communicate across a gulf symbolized by his death. The essays "On the Nature of the ' l' " and "On Journeying Through the Depths" examine the effect of the Nazi regime on the German psyche and the best route to healing . Through these stories and essays we can see Kaschnitz's fascination with "das Unheimliche," myth, and her tendency to draw her stories from her own life experiences.</p> <p>Translating Kaschnitz presents many challenges arising from her lyrical style of writing. Kaschnitz's writing does not only speak to the conscious mind but also seeks to reach the reader at an emotional and intuitive level. l have attempted to make consistent choices and have explained those choices in the two introductory essays referring. l have also illustrated the effects of such choices by discussing two translators of Kaschnitz who have differing approaches, Donald MacRae and Lisel Mueller. To add a critical perspective to the translations , l have prefaced each story or essay with a discussion of the themes present and the context in which it was written. The select i on of stories and essays have been arranged in chronological order to show the development of her writing style and thematic concerns.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

[missing pages 78 and 95] / Conceived as an attempt to view Fontane's masterpiece Irrungen Wirrungen as a Zeitroman, the first chapter of this thesis will present the current controversy surrounding the genre, while subsequent chapters will furnish proof of the novel as belonging to the outlined definition of the Zeitroman. The structure of time in the novel will be considered in the light of Bergson's concepts in the third chapter of the thesis, which will lead us to look at the need to fill time perceived as "empty", (Leere Zeit) by certain characters, hence the study of Zeitvertreib in the final chapter. / Master of Arts (MA)

Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND HUMANITIES. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 207-209. / Ph.D.

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Univ., Diss.--Hamburg, 2004.

Edition commerciale de : Habilitationsschrift : Philosophie : Universität Bonn : 19?? / Bibliogr. p. 342-360. Index.