Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Univ., 2003. / Härtill 7 uppsatser.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 1990. / Title from PDF t.p.

Diss.--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität--München, 1988.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xx, 199 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-199).

Zugl.: Bern, Univ., Diss., 2003

Berlin, Humboldt-Universiẗat, Diss., 2004.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Calvin Theological Seminary, 1985. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-230).

The title, "'n Intertekstuele studie: Die werfbobbejaan van Alexander Strachan", refers to an analysis of the way in which intertextual processes generate meaning in this text. It is analysed with specific regard to the way in which it enters into signifying and detennining relationships with other texts, notably texts by the same author. A significant part of the intertexts that are reassembled, refined, restated, amplified, contradicted or diffused throughout Die werfbobbejaan are located in other works in the Strachan oeuvre: n Wereld sonder grense (1984) and Die jakkalsjagter (1990). These three texts are related as a triptych of intertextual association, and the boundaries between them are not hermetically sealed. Intertextual activity in Die werfbobbejaan involves an intricate network of interfigural relationships. The identities of numerous characters in the text start to coincide with those of other characters to which they are linked intertextually. Characters travel across the boundaries supposedly separating "different" texts. The doubling and displacing of characters alert us to the fact that the text is not fixed within stable boundaries. Codes, scenes, snippets of dialogue and even moods also penetrate the boundaries between "different" texts and recur in the form of mirror images or ghostly transformations of themselves. These intertextual patterns mobilise an active reading process and unify the act of reading with that of writing in "a single signifying process" (Barthes 1979: 79). The narrator in Die werfbobbejaan is a woman writing a biography about an author. Reading his novels and unpublished manuscript she finds that the manuscript of her subject anticipates and later even dictates "extra-textual" reality and inserts her into the fiction. The way in which the biography is taken up in the play of intertextuality leads to the perception that the fictional author is an intertextual mirror image of the real author, who belongs to the extra-textual world outside the book. In this way intertextual activity in Die werfbobbejaan destabilizes the frame between fiction and reality. No reading of Die werfbobbejaan can be complete without taking into account the plurality of simultaneously perceived meanings triggered by intertextual activity in the text.

No abstract available. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 1955. / gm2014 / Historical and Heritage Studies / Unrestricted

The unification of the two Germanies in 1990 created a new interest in East Germany and an availability of information about the former communist country. The altered political context has fostered a re-evaluation of "things eastern," since much of what had previously been rejected or undervalued as the product of a communist-socialist regime has now proven to have its own merit. In this spirit, I have pursued a thesis which begins to re-examine East German literature - specifically through a study of Ulrich Plenzdorfs Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. Plenzdorfs novel provides an ideal basis for a discussion of the major issues surrounding writing, author-state relations, and the relationship between politics and culture in East Germany. Although Ulrich Plenzdorfis a well known East German author, his fame is based more on the controversy surrounding the use and imitation of Goethe in Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. than on his own literary accomplishments. However, the strengths of the novel can only be explored and appreciated through a broader perspective. Using theories of intertextuality, I have investigated strong connections between Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. and Robinson Crusoe and Catcher in the Rye and identified more significant relationships than those of mimicry between Plenzdorfs novel and Goethe's Werther. Of particular interest is the way in which this pairing reveals and contrasts with the dominant East German view ofthe German cultural heritage. The comparison between Die neue Leiden and Salinger's Catcher in the Rye reveals the implications ofthis relationship between East German and American literature. The overt connection which Plenzdorf creates between his book and this American classic is both an expression and contradiction ofthe dominant East German view of the United States. The work of intertextual theorists provides a framework for the examination of the literary interrelationships, as well as for the identication and analysis of linguistic, cultural, and political intertexts. But while Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. is a compilation ofrecycled material, it is also a unique piece of literature. Not only does Plenzdorf borrow from a number ofother sources, but he makes the inevitability and necessity of this adoption a theme of his work. Just as the central figure Wibeau searches for his own identity, moving through imitations ofRobinson Crusoe, Holden Caulfield, and Werther, so too Plenzdorf is searching for his own voice in the chorus ofthe masters ofthe past such as Defoe, Salinger, and Goethe. In this quest for self-development and self-realization, Plenzdorf and Wibeau confront traditions, assumptions, and present practices, stimulating questions, discussion, and creating the original work Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)