German

Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
This thesis examines the interrelation of love and loneliness in
the plot, structure, symbolism and characters' gestures in Theodor
Storm's Novellen, to determine the function of love in its connection
to tne ever-present theme of loneliness in Storm's fiction.
Lave between man and woman is the basic lave relationship considered
in the investigation. Storm shows how love can overcome
loneliness in various ways. The memory of a past love relationship
is used to combat present loneliness. The idea of a lasting
love relationship is embraced as the only possible solace in man's
lonely struggle for existence. The love relationship is the faundation
of a chain of generations which links the past, present and
future, and, therefore, limits the loneliness inherent in human
transitoriness. Love can only limit loneliness in Storm's Novellen,
never eliminate it.
Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
The purpose of this study is to present an interpretation of Gottfried
Keller's novella Die drei gerechten Kammacher and to combine it
with a detailed analysis of the narrative technique and language of the
work.
Extensive research of relevant available literature indicates that
there has not been a detailed analytical study of this novella, although
it has frequently been described as one of the author's most creative
and imaginative works . A number of critics have raised interesting questions concerning the fatalistic and hopeless ending of the three combmakers. Others have criticized the language of the narrative, criticism
which will be considered in this thesis.
This thesis is divided into five sections : 1) Introduction; II)
Fundamentals of the novella: Genesis, Frame and Seldwyla; III) Interpretation of the novella; IV) Analysis of the Narrative Technique. These
chapters are followed by an analysis of the work in totality and conclusion
in which the above mentioned criticisms are given an evaluation.