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Thesis (Ph D.)--University of Chicago. / "Reprinted from Modern philology, vols. V and VI, 1908." Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 1-2) Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Linguistics, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University. / Life. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Heidelberg. / Bibliography: v. 1, p. 706-719.

Inaug.--diss.--Kiel. / Lebenslauf. Includes bibliography.

Inaugural-dissertation--Berlin. / Lebenslauf. Published in full in Ergänzungshefte zur Zeitschrift für vergleichende sprachforschung auf dem gebiete der indogermanischen sprachen, nr 11. "Literaturverzeichnis": [5]-12.

<p>This dissertation explores arguments against legal and authoritarian structures as thematized by four works of fiction from distinct periods of German history: Jacob Wasserman's Der Fall Maurizius (the Weimar Republic), Arnold Zweig's Das Beil von Wandsbek (the Third Reich), Manfred Bieler's Das Kaninchen bin Ich (post-war division of Germany), and Thomas Brussig's Leben bis Männer (Germany after reunification). The aim of my analysis is to define how each work builds a "case" against the state. It conducts a literary analysis of each work, which it places in its own cultural and political context. It then compares this case to German theories of law to determine points at which the work is in dialogue with pressing questions of justice particular to its legal epoch: Der Fall Maurizius (1928) builds a case against the state by juxtaposing positivist and natural law, yet ultimately cannot avoid the axiomatic nature of each position; Das Beil von Wandsbek (1938-43) is a Marxist morality play whose concept of justice proves insufficient to its own implied standards; Maria Morzeck oder Das Kaninchen bin ich (1969) engages the GDR's 1961 law reform directly, yet in its development from GDR film to FRG novel softens its critique of the state by thematizing its own literary limitations; and Leben bis Männer (2001) argues against Germany's post-reunification trials of former GDR border guards, but exposes its own plea for a sympathetic view of the GDR.</p> / Dissertation

The intent of this study is twofold: (1) To present a reading of The Tin Drum, both novel and film, with the objective of discovering whether the same basic theme and tone are present in both. (2) To evaluate how the novel and film compare in terms of modernist and popular art. / In evaluating the faithfulness of Volker Schlondorff's film adaptation of the Gunter Grass novel The Tin Drum, one must measure the extent to which film theme and tone are consistent with those of the novel. Wolfgang Iser's phenomenological approach to the act of reading offers a useful methodology. According to Iser, the reading of a text, whether filmic or literary, involves the interrelationship between text and reader and is viewed as an open-ended process by which the reader attempts to make sense of the work. Texts which leave numerous gaps in perspective for the reader to fill or which contradict reader expectations (negations) are considered modernist, whereas texts which require little active involvement from the reader are classified as popular or light literature or film. / The tone of The Tin Drum, both novel and film, centers around loss, insecurity, and the tension of being between "faith and disillusionment." The novel produces an intellectually based insecurity for the reader whereas the film operates on the basis of emotional response, mostly through audience identification with the loss and insecurity experienced by Oskar, the main character. / The novel and film have vastly different themes. The novel deals with issues such as war guilt, sanity and insanity, and rationality and irrationality, especially with reference to Germany during World War II. The film reconstructs a story of a small boy who, for the most part, remains distant from the events of the war, and what we experience concerns his search for security mostly from women, and his inability to find it. / As a straightforward chronological presentation of events and characters described in the novel, the film is less demanding and consequently less modernist than the book. The filmic sequence of events is much more accessible than those in the book: A little boy decides to remain three years old and three feet tall. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-04, Section: A, page: 1158. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.