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Narcissism in Dreisers "An American Tragedy"
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: In his novel "An American Tragedy", Theodore Dreiser presents characters with various pychological disorders. This research paper will focus on the narcissism of selected characters in that novel. Firstly, the term narcissism and typical symptoms will be explained. Secondly, the most important characters in the novel will be analysed. Lastly, I will try to explain possible reasons for Dreiser's viewpoints and describe his social background.
Maurice Shadbolt's Season Of The Jew and Michael Blake's Dances With Wolves
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,5, University of Göttingen, course: Literature of New Zealand, language: English, abstract: Title: The Concept of the Noble / Ignoble Savage in 20th Century New World Novels: Maurice Shadbolt's Season Of The Jew and Michael Blake's Dances With Wolves Confrontation of civilized Europeans with foreign "primitive" peoples has mostly been disatvantageous for the latter. The easiest way to deal with the strangeness of indigenous people was to regard them in a stereotypical way. Stereotypes such as the "noble" and the "ingnoble savage" were used to deprive such cultures of their humanity...
The Pathology of Bartleby
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,4, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: When Melville wrote "Bartleby, The Scrivener", he was in a state of intense despair and a feeling of rejection had come over him because his former works such as "Moby Dick" and "Pierre" had not received the attention and appreciation he had expected. Many critics consider Melville's failure to reach the contemporary readership to have influenced his later works such as the "Piazza Tales" (Dan McCall, The Silence Of Bartleby., p. 38). Some even regard the figure of Bartleby as a personification of the author (Robert Rogers, A Psychoanalytic Reading...
The Representation of Veblen‘s Concepts from the "Theory of the Leisure Class" in Dreisers "Sister Carrie"
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,2, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: With his "Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899), which is nowadays considered one of his most popular works, Veblen made himself a social outsider because his criticism of society was harsh and provoking. Although he accepted utilitarianism and praised the industrial efficiency of the engineering professions, he rejected what Mills calls the American value of the "heraldry of the greenback" and the "pecuniary fanatism of the business chieftain". Still his work was widely read and many of the problems which he saw in contemporary American society are ...
Margaret Fuller's Concept of “Gender” in the context of her time
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,00, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: "Let them be sea-captains, if you will", Margaret Fuller stated in her main work Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Woman 346). Although even nowadays there may be only few female sea-captains, the quoted statement would hardly provoke anyone, at least not someone in our contemporary western culture. However, when regarded in its historical context, two questions arise: Firstly, what underlying gender concept encouraged Fuller to make such a statement, in "a time of excessive gender polarization" (Bomarito (vol2) 1), a time in which the ideal of dom...
Diversity in America
The updated and expanded fourth edition of Diversity in America addresses key controversial topics generating debate in US society today. The book answers these and many other questions by using history and sociology to shed light on socially constructed myths. Vincent N. Parrillo takes the reader through different American eras, beginning with the indigenous populations and continuing through colonial times, the industrial age, the information age and today. The book uses intergenerational comparisons and extrapolation of present trends into future probabilities to offer the reader a holistic analytic commentary to provide additional helpful insights and understanding.
Der Einfluss Schopenhauers auf Wagners Musikdrama "Ring des Nibelungen"
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Musik - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Musikwiss. Seminar Göttingen), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Ring, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn man den Ring in seinen Einzelheiten auf philosophischer, psychologischer und logischer Ebene eingehender betrachtet, kommt man nicht umhin, festzustellen, dass Wagners Monumentalwerk von Brüchen durchzogen ist. Ob und wie nun Schopenhauers Philosophie zu diesen Ungereimtheiten in Wagners Ring-Werk beigetragen hat, soll in dieser Arbeit eingehender erörtert werden. Es muss jedoch darauf hingewiesen werden, dass einiges nur vermutet werden kann, da nicht überall eindeutigen Belege...
Umetnost glasbe v času od Monteverdija do Bacha
Monografija prikazuje zgodovino evropske umetne glasbe v obdobju baroka. V vsebinskem smislu ima tri obsežnejše dele: prvi je posvečen epohalnim novostim v italijanski glasbi na prehodu v 17. stol.; drugi opisuje glasbo v 17. stol. v štirih glasbeno najpomembnejših evropskih deželah (Italija, nemške dežele, Francija, Anglija), tretji pa glasbo v prvi polovici 18. stol., ko je mogoče opaziti določeno ustalitev internacionalno uveljavljenih žanrov in glasbenih oblik. V delu se prepletajo različne vsebinske sestavine: opisano je glasbeno življenje v posameznih zgodovinskih okoljih; na to se navezujejo prikazi glasbenih žanrov; opisane so posamezne zgodovinske glasbene oblike, njihov nastanek in razvoj; prikazana je vrsta skladateljskih osebnosti; slednjič vključuje monografija vrsto analitično-kritiških opisov posameznih izbranih kompozicij, ki ilustrirajo glasbene oblike, žanre in skladateljske osebnosti.
The Representation of Veblen's Concepts from the Theory of the Leisure Class in Dreisers Sister Carrie
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,2, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: With his "Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899), which is nowadays considered one of his most popular works, Veblen made himself a social outsider because his criticism of society was harsh and provoking. Although he accepted utilitarianism and praised the industrial efficiency of the engineering professions, he rejected what Mills calls the American value of the "heraldry of the greenback" and the "pecuniary fanatism of the business chieftain". Still his work was widely read and many of the problems which he saw in contemporary American society are ...
