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The influence of Romance novels and the matter of Britain in modern and contemporary German language and literature
Pulimanti, Alessandro ; Weinberg, Manfred (advisor) ; Cornejo, Renata (referee) ; Nelva, Daniela (referee)
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to reflect on the influence that the Romance tradition has had on the work of Peter Handke. One play and three novels were selected as the corpus of the thesis, all of which were analysed from a textual perspective and all of which displayed the influence of the mystical-medieval tradition in a particularly original way. The research will be divided into three macro-sections: the first macro-section will focus on the influence of the Grail-Parzival universe on Handke's work, while the second will analyse the revival of the Latin hagiographic dimension. Finally, the third macro-topic will address the re-interpretation, through a modern lens, of the Spanish mystical tradition. In view of future studies regarding the influence of the Romance cultural dimension on Handke's work, this dissertation intends to demonstrate how the chivalric-medieval tradition and the mystical tradition itself become, for the Austrian author, a tool used to re-interpret the present and his own biographical past in light of themes and elements apparently distant from the current times, yet still profoundly connected to them.
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The Main Tendencies in the German Political Drama with an Emphasis on the Contemporary Drama
Marešová, Petra ; Augustová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Cornejo, Renata (referee) ; Urválek, Aleš (referee)
In my thesis, I analyse the current German political drama. However, the term political drama or theatre is difficult to define in general. In my work, I understand the concepts of political drama / theatre in the narrower sense, follow the engaged, appellative, left-wing (anti-capitalist) oriented the- atre of E. Piscator and Brecht, and at the same, in the broader sense, as socio-critical drama / theatre, i.e. relating to the problems of today's "polis" (city, state) and following mainly the tradition of new German and Austrian folk plays. In contemporary German political drama, the two trends outlined in the introduction can be traced. In their works, the first line (left-wing appellative) is followed mainly by playwrights and directors F. Richter and R. Pollesch, the other line (socio-critical) by D. Loher, O. Bukowski, T. Walser, or M. von Mayenburg.
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