Auflistung nach Autor "Gymnich, Marion"
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A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Children’s Classic Revisited
Gymnich, Marion; Lichterfeld, Imke (2012)Although Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret ... -
Die Attraktivität des Ursprünglichen: Millenarismus, Hybridität und Gesellschaftskritik in der Lehre von José Argüelles
Riessinger, Bianca (2024-03-28)Millenarismus und millenaristische Bewegungen sind Phänomene, die im Laufe der Geschichte immer wieder in unterschiedlichen Gesellschaften aufgetreten sind, wobei das Spektrum bis in die Gegenwart hineinreicht. Ein Beispiel ... -
Darstellungen kultureller Merkmale der Chicano-Kultur in ausgewählten Chicano-Romanen (1972-2005) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihres Einflusses auf junge Protagonisten
Jenischewski, Sarah (2021-09-24)Spätestens seit der Präsidentschaft von Donald Trump treten Chicanos, also mexikanischstämmige Amerikaner, in den Medien vor allem als Immigranten in Erscheinung. Tatsächlich ist die Geschichte der Chicanos in den Vereinigten ... -
Detecting the Self and the Other: Violence and Nation Building in Postmodern Crime Fiction
Frings, Laura (2020-07-20)The growing number of publications on the relationship between crime literature and nationality or ethnicity demonstrates the close connection between these topics. The spectrum of studies ranges from the classic detective ... -
Dota 2 and League of Legends: Two of the world’s most popular video games, their cultural aspects, their genre and its definition
Hiltscher, Julia (2022-04-27)This book is a foundational work about the MOBA genre: Its history, genre, game design, cultural aspects, appeal, player & esports culture and mental health implications as well as their publishers’ monetization strategies. ... -
The Functions of Literature: A Diachronic Perspective on the British Novel on Terrorism from the Victorian Fin de Siècle to the Present
Stephens, Anna (2020-04-15)Modern terrorism emerged over 150 years ago. It not only wreaked havoc on individuals and societies and inspired widespread fear of future attacks, but also triggered a myriad of fictional responses by writers and film-makers, ... -
Gendered (Re)Visions: Constructions of Gender in Audiovisual Media
Gymnich, Marion; Ruhl, Kathrin; Scheunemann, Klaus (2010)Basierend auf der Annahme, dass Geschlechterrollen in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmend komplexer und differenzierter geworden sind, wird in den Artikeln des Bandes die Konstruktion von Geschlecht in zeitgenössischen ... -
Die Gestaltung der Globalität: Neue Anfragen an die Geisteswissenschaften
Kühnhardt, Ludger; Hogrebe, Wolfram; Ladenthin, Volker; Bonnet, Anne-Marie; Sielke, Sabine; Gymnich, Marion; Sturma, Dieter; Kobusch, Theo; Mayer, Tilman (2009) -
Late capitalism and its fictitious future(s): the postmodern, science fiction, and the contemporary dystopia
Geef, Dennis (2015-09-02)My study investigates the various changes global capitalism underwent in the past three decades and analyses how these changes are reflected in contemporary dystopian literature.
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Die literarische Repräsentation des Bösen in den Harry Potter Romanen von J.K. Rowling
Wolter, Martina (2017-04-07)Die sieben Harry Potter Romane werden zunächst in die literaturwissenschaftlichen Genres eingeordnet, im Vordergrund stehen hier die (Phantastische) Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und die Fantasy-Literatur.
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Metareference as a Public Service: Performed by Contemporary Narrative Media
Baeva, Elena (2019-06-05)Building on decades' worth of research by scholars such as L. Hutcheon, W. Nöth, A. Nünning, I. O. Rajewsky, P. Waugh, W. Wolf and others on the topics of self-reference, metafiction and metanarration, this transmedial ... -
Raising Environmental Awareness via Literature: Perceptions of Nature and the City in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary British Poetry
Weber, Kim-Laura (2020-02-06)This dissertation examines the connections between various poetic representations of our spatial surroundings and their development over time by analyzing selected examples of nineteenth-century and contemporary British ... -
Reading the Game: Anglo-American Perspectives on Football Fandom in the Age of Premier League Football
Wolf, Dominik (2014-08-12)Although the confessional hooligan memoir has attracted sustained academic interest among sociologists, a lack of attention is clearly given to more ordinary forms of football fandom. Given the fact that the overwhelming ... -
That’s All One: A History of Theatre Music, Based on the Epilogue Song in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Behrendt, Kathrin (2016-02-01)The study "A History of Theatre Music, Based on the Epilogue Song in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night" analyses the change of compositional structures of theatre music over a period of 111 years. In ending the play's ... -
The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating: The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature
Gymnich, Marion; Lennartz, Norbert (2010)Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today’s media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history ... -
Utopic Bodies, Dystopic Subjects: Dialogues Between Literature and Theory
Weimbs, Catrin (2010-12-10)This dissertation examines the ways in which literary and theoretical texts respectively use the trope of the body to negotiate questions of subjectivity in utopic and dystopic discourse. By staging dialogues between ... -
Who’s afraid of...?: Facets of Fear in Anglophone Literature and Film
Gymnich, Marion (2012)Fear in its many facets appears to constitute an intriguing and compelling subject matter for writers and screenwriters alike. The contributions address fictional representations and explorations of fear in different genres ...