<p>The results of an intensive analysis of writings by Franz Fühmann will not be presented in the traditional form of a discussion, but rather as an actual recreation in another language of the specific texts under study.</p> <p>This thesis, then, presents three stories from Franz Fühmann's 1977 collection entitled Bagatelle, rundum positiv in English translation.</p> <p>A preliminary chapter serves to introduce this contemporary writer from the German Democratic Republic, and to acquaint the reader with the cultural, political scene within which Fühmann has been working.</p> <p>In the concluding chapter, particular problems encountered in translation are pointed out, and solutions to these problems are explained. These solutions were devised subsequent to my gaining insight into the material.</p> <p>The bibliography catalogues all literature produced by Franz Fühmann prior to 1980, and also everything written on him and his work to date. It is intended to be a list of all the sources available for an eXhaustive Fühmann study, not merely a catalogue of the publications actually used for the purpose of this thesis.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This paper begins with an examination of Gottfried1s probable background and interests, which are seen to vary greatly from those of his contemporaries. These differences manifest themselves in the poet's unusual degree of concern for matters of an artistic nature and the purpose of this study is to demonstrate the importance which Gottfried attributes to art within his poem.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This study represents an analysis of the function of nature within the novels of Theodor Fontane. Nature is examined in its bearing on the form and content of individual novels, attention being given to the chronolhgical development of Fontane's work. An attempt is made to assess the significance of nature in the writer's art as a whole.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>The gradual change in attitude to modern theatrical dialogue is outlined and an investigation of frisch's dialogue is carried out. It is established that the lack of communication manifest in the dialogue between characters on stage has as its counterpart a high level of communication between stage and audience. The means whereby this is achieved lies in the manipulation of dalogue in- and cross-stage.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This thesis prioritizes the role of the Fabulous, an underdeveloped critical concept, in the construction of gay male literature and film. Building on Heather Love's observation that queer communities possess a seemingly magical ability to transform shame into pride - queer alchemy - I argue that gay males have created a genre of fiction that draws on this alchemical power through their uses of the Fabulous: fabulous realism. To highlight the multifarious nature of the Fabulous, I examine Thomas Gustafson's film Were the World Mine, Tomson Highway's novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, and Quentin Crisp's memoir The Naked Civil Servant.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>Spenser's concern with English sovereignty is evident throughout The Faerie Queene, and in "The Legend of Holinesse" he promotes an entirely indigenous faith structure aligned with the state as the basis for a unified nation. I argue that in Book I of The Faerie Queene, Spenser presents an allegorical model of England through the Redcrosse Knight, Prince Arthur, and Una. These three characters represent the English citizenry, monarchy, and Protestant church, the three institutions proposed as necessary for a unified nation. Spenser's heroic model is presented as an emblem in Canto ix, where through the efforts of Prince Arthur, Redcrosse is reunited with Una. These three characters are similarly used in this paper as a structuring device to organize this thesis into three self-contained, interrelated essays, and issues relevant to each character/institution are explored in his or her chapter. After a brief discussion of the poetic emblem in Canto ix, where all three characters are present and exchange tokens of friendship, Redcrosse, Arthur, and Una are considered individually.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the types and amounts of speaking activities in which beginning foreign language students engage, in order to determine how and to what extent students practice the language artificially in drills, directed dialogues and other forms of pseudo-communication, and how and to what extent they use the foreign language as a real means of communication.</p> <p>Seventeen grade 10 and grade 11 German classes in Hamilton-Wentworth publicly supported secondary schools were observed, and teacher questionnaires were completed by twenty local German teachers to verify the accuracy of the observations.</p> <p>The results of the observations and the questionnaires reveal that student talk in elementary foreign language classes is largely in the foreign language (86%),<br />but that this talk falls almost exclusively in the artificial range (98%). Only 2% of everything spoken by the students in grade 10 classes was real communication in the target language. Further, the data indicate that real communication activities do not increase substantially at the grade 11 level.</p> <p>Student exposure to real uses of the foreign language occurred primarily in the form of listening comprehension, in that 75% of all real communication spoken in German in<br />the grade 10 classes was the teacher giving instructions or making explanations. Even in this category, teachers used more English than German (61% English). In general a tendency was shovm both by teachers and students to use English whenever real communication was intended.</p> <p>Real communication is believed to be essential both to student motivation and to student achievement at the earliest stages of foreign language learning. Yet real<br />communication activities rarely occurred in the beginning foreign language classes observed in this study. Teachers cited two major obstacles in achieving real communication with their first year students: their limited vocabulary and their limited knowledge of structure. Teachers who overcame these two obstacles in the observations achieved real communication via the following technique: by using the vocabulary and structure from a drill, text, or dialogue which the students had already mastered to ask the students personal questions. This technique may be utilized as a follow-up step to every practice activity from the beginning of foreign language study and needs only to be planned and practiced regularly for real communication in elementary foreign language classes to substantially increase.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This study assesses the importance of the contribution made by Uwe Johnson in his novels to the development of contemporary realistic writing, by examining political and<br />social problems raised by the post-war ideological division of Europe and the complex question of individuality in modern society. Johnson's three novels are considered on a comparative basis, with regard to narrative structure, settings and characterisation, in order to indicate his principal interests as a novelist and as an observer of society, and to sugeest significallt changes of emphasis within the novels.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This thesis examines how America's cultural and historical memory forgets or problematically remembers Vietnam and the Vietnamese people(s) through the most prominent Vietnamese American texts, Le Ly Hayslip's <em>When Heaven and Earth Changed Places</em> and <em>Child of War, Woman of Peace,</em> and Oliver Stone's filmic adaptation of Hayslip's memoirs, <em>Heaven and Earth</em>. In the U.S., thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, there is a vast archive of history books, memoirs, films and other cultural products about the War, yet the Vietnamese people(s) are conspicuously absent in these discourses. In the American context of historical amnesia, Vietnam (the country) is forgotten and the Vietnamese people(s) are denied subjectivity, their numerous losses remaining disavowed and un-moumed.</p> <p>I argue that Hayslip's books represent acts of mouming. She achieves this mouming by engaging with her losses and those of the Vietnamese people(s) in a productive way, using them as means to attain voice / Subjectivity and to counter the American forgetting of Vietnamese causalities and losses. I explore a form of melancholic remembrance tied to the traditional Vietnamese practice of ancestor worship at work in Hayslip's memoirs, one that allows Hayslip to offer alternative, minority stories of the War. However, the mainstream reception of Hayslip's books, especially the embrace of her message of healing and reconciliation, appropriates and co-opts her voice/ story to support U.S. national objectives. I analyze stone's film as an ultimate example of Hayslip's appropriation by the American dominant. The thesis considers the complexities in and around Hayslip's texts in order to better understand America's amnesiac memory in relation to Vietnam and the Vietnamese people(s).</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>In this thesis I examine representations of hospitality in four works by Thomas Heywood: <em>1 and 2 Edward IV</em> (1599), <em>A Woman Killed with Kindness</em> (1603), <em>The</em><br /><em>English Traveller</em> (1633), and <em>The Late Lancashire Witches</em> (1634). In the early modern period the practice of hospitality was integral to social relations, facilitating the consolidation of social ties, status and influence. Concurrent with these four plays, the period from approximately 1580 to 1630 contained an increasing interest and anxiety about the practice of hospitality and its apparent decline. Through an examination of the representations of hospitality in these plays, in relation to contemporary concerns surrounding early modern hospitality, I show that these plays exhibit a variety of anxieties and concerns about the practice of hospitality. In particular, I argue that the plays exhibit anxieties about masculine identity and the social responsibilities of householders; that the hospitable relation between host and guest, though intended to be socially edifying, may provide an avenue for social disruption and subversion due to the specific functions and expectations surrounding hospitality; and about female participation in hospitality, which often results in the exclusion of women from the benefits of the conventional system of hospitable exchange.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)