This project focuses on the afterlife of Friedrich Schiller’s works in 19th and 20th century aesthetic theory, and has two aims: to articulate the central aesthetic co [...]

This dissertation demonstrates how textile objects and practices played an important but unacknowledged role in art and literature of the Federal Republic of Germany and [...]

This dissertation proposes translation as a model for responding to the end of a human world. Not the end of the world that is, but of human worlds, in the plural, as we [...]

This dissertation examines how German modernism seeks to respond to the problem of nihilism, particularly as it was formulated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche understoo [...]

This dissertation considers concepts of play in literary texts by four German writers of the long nineteenth century: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Clemens Brentano, E.T.A. [...]

This dissertation analyzes the poetic practices and critical discourses of the early German Romantic project of progressive universal poetry through the works of Friedric [...]

This dissertation is a historical study of pleasure as a form of relational thought. The interest of the project is historical, formal, and theoretical: How did sexuality [...]

This dissertation studies representations of civil war in nineteenth-century German drama. It marks the first systematic attempt in the field of German studies to employ [...]

This dissertation shows how the intersection between German and Yiddish became an important but largely forgotten site of literary production in the long twentieth centur [...]

This dissertation addresses a contentious topic within the history of political economy and the interpretation of several influential theories which engage with it. It is [...]

This dissertation shows that the unity of the philosophical, religious, and aesthetic developments during the period 1770–1830 only comes fully to light when viewed with [...]

This dissertation focuses on the manifold afterlives of Greek antiquity in the German-language poetry and poetics during the era of Weimar Classicism (1788-1805). I appro [...]

This dissertation is a literary history of the Viennese Biedermeier, a period spanning the Vienna Congress in 1815 and the Spring of Nations in 1848. Through four case st [...]

Over forty-five films made in Nazi Germany foregrounded classical music, despite the reluctance of film composers to quote the classics and worries on the part of the mus [...]

The field of Germanic studies has recently witnessed a renascent interest in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s natural scientific work, above all his ‘morphology’ or study of [...]

This dissertation explores the tradition of literary romance in order to make an argument concerning the truth of imaginative fiction. In much of literary history, romanc [...]

This study investigates the motif and operation of recognition in poetic realist works by Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) and Gottfried Keller (1819-1890). Taking as a start [...]

This dissertation analyzes one of the most recurrent--and troubling--motifs in modern German literature: death by drowning. Ultimately, it suggests that these scenes of d [...]

Frames are everywhere. They are found in fields as diverse as sociology, computer science, cognitive psychology, and, of course, literary studies. Broadly defined as stru [...]

This dissertation explores acting in productions directed by Frank Castorf at the Berlin Volksbühne between 1990 and 1994. Castorf’s directorial style has transformed Ger [...]

This work seeks to demonstrate that Johann Wolfgang Goethe 's practice of an art of living closely corresponds with the ancient philosophical form of life as elaborated b [...]

This dissertation provides an account of the broad, holistic theory of mind with which Johann Gottlieb Fichte and his contemporaries thought about the interrelation of th [...]

To the extent the history of autism has been investigated, its object has been treated as a natural-scientific given. Its history then takes twofold shape, comprising (1) [...]

An interest in the concept of ornament, and in the range of artistic practices traditionally called ornamental, has long been recognized as a feature of [...]An interest in the concept of ornament, and in the range of artistic practices traditionally called ornamental, has long been recognized as a feature of the literary and [...]