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Schultz, Bryan J. "The portrayal of Switzerland and the role of the Swiss detective in the modern Swiss crime novel /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79977.
Full textListon, Andrew Adams. "The ecological voice in recent German-Swiss prose." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11287.
Full textCox, Emma Lucie Frances. "Robert Walser as a model for the modern Swiss writer." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260088.
Full textReid, C. S. "National identity in Scottish and Swiss children's and young people's books : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356405.
Full textBehr, Teresa Marie. "A Study in Translation: Max's Frisch's Don Juan." Thesis, Boston College, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/409.
Full textThesis advisor: Michael Resler
This thesis is a case study of translation, based upon the translation of Max Frisch's play "Don Juan: oder, die Liebe zur Geometrie". It includes a brief overview of translation theory from the Romans to the present century, an introduction to the life and works of Frisch and post WWII Swiss literature, and a translation of the full text of the play, complete with notes and observations on the translation
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: Germanic Studies
Discipline: College Honors Program
Bayer, Penny. "Women's alchemical literature 1560-1616 in Italy, France, the Swiss Cantons and England, and its diffusion to 1660." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/71980/.
Full textTonetti, Ilenia. "Linguistic Trust-Building Strategies in Swiss Banks’ Public Discourse: : A Diachronic Study of Annual Reports and Corporate Responsibility Reports from UBS and Credit Suisse." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30335.
Full textSorel, Françoise. "Les nouvelles de Peter Stamm : le cours des textes." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30046.
Full textThe work of the Swiss writer Peter Stamm is characterized by its diversity. It relies on several literary genres, including novels, plays, youth books, poetological essays and an important set of short stories. The essential themes are classical : the human relationships, love, death. The brief prose of the German-speaking writer, born in 1963, strikes the reader by its powerful effects. The stories of Peter Stamm take place in the contemporary world, in the everyday life. They are told in the terms of a mimetic aesthetic. The specular image of reality is challenged from within by a haunting network of imaginary elements. Hence, the way of things offered to see is subjected to contrary forces. They coexist. The topography in the work also testifies that opposites do coexist. The notions of here and elsewhere meet continuously. In the temporal field also, opposite conceptions or categories are put in tension: linearity and circularity of time, present moment and eternity. The category of the characters is also marked by the coexistence of very varied profiles and brings another testimony of the degree of openness of the work. The logical scheme of the paradox, associating opposites, is the major structuring element of Stamm's short stories production. The genre models of Kurzgeschichte and Novelle, theoretically incompatible, coexist in Stamm’s world. His texts contain, more generally, tangible traces of a double heritage, referring to both Romanticism and Modernity. The poetic orientation of Stamm's short stories, the way the texts go, can be grasped by exploring all these areas in friction
Toumsy, Salima. "Entre la clarté et la nuit: Jean-Pierre Monnier, écrivain suisse romand." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211855.
Full textMarinot-Marchand, Delphine. "Le Rhin suisse dans la littérature de voyage européenne du XVe au XIXe siècle." Phd thesis, Université du Maine, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00669625.
Full textSchlaifer, Clara. "L’imaginaire des langues chez Charles-Albert Cingria : un parcours poétique, politique et rhétorique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA058.
Full textCharles-Albert Cingria (1883-1954), a Swiss francophone writer, was a long-time columnist for La NRF. He wrote and lived in Paris as well as in his native Switzerland, but has been little studied in France. As a traveller and polyglot, he makes the observation of languages central to a constellation of poetic, aesthetic, and rhetorical considerations in his distinctive, unclassifiable work. In the political context of the beginning of the 20th century, studied here from the history of ideas’ perspective, his ideas about languages set him in the Anti-Enlightenment tradition. His labyrinthine work has never before been studied as a whole, perhaps because it refuses ordinary categorizations. On the level of genre, theme, and form, as well as on an ideological level, Cingria’s work thwarts conventional understanding, while letting the reader feel the echoes and resonances that fill the text. The author chooses to consider this work as coherent, and opts to view Cingria’s work through the lens of a main theme: its representations of language and languages within a discourse freed from scientific pretensions. This journey through Cingria’s thought begins with examining his early diatribe against Esperanto, then moves to a broader discussion of his work, showing that his representation of languages concerns above all an aesthetic conception of the world perceived as cosmos. The imaginary of languages ultimately rests on the same principles as his argumentative strategy: in the name of nature and the natural, obviousness takes precedence over demonstrating. These principles give rise to texts whose obscurity results, paradoxically, from the desire to make them more embodied and more concrete
Bucher, Danijela. "Le voyage et l’image : l’appropriation visuelle et matérielle de la Suisse et des Alpes par les voyageurs anglais (du XVIIIe au XXe siècle)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Angers, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018ANGE0072.
Full textThis thesis explores the relationship between English travellers and the image of Switzerland over 250 years (from the 18th to the 20thcentury). While the reasons for and the manner of travelling changed from the Grand Tour to more modern mountaineering, the interest in images has grown. The starting point and the central theme are the hundreds of prints produced by the so-called “Swiss Kleinmeister” artists in the 18th century. The focus is on prints from English collections such as the National Trust, the British Library and the British Museum. In addition, travel literature will be analysed. The aim of this study is, firstly, to trace the different meanings the print could have to the travellers and, secondly, to detect the travellers’ favourite subjects. The method “artefact studies” and the concept of “object biography” will be used in order to study the prints in a non-exclusively artistic context. Some travellers and their Swiss prints reveal that there was a shift in their meaning and function: while in the18th century the prints were considered as travel souvenirs, they were considered as works of art from the 19th century on. One surprising result is that Grand tourists and mountaineers purchased as many costume prints as landscape prints
Fritze, Christine Elena. "Collaborating beyond the boundaries of citizenship: a transcultural perspective on public participation in the development of Swiss immigrant policy." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4101.
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Bérubé, Claudia. "La poétique du roman historique de Eveline Hasler." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4067.
Full textThe work of Eveline Hasler, who stands as a leading influence in contemporary Swiss-German literature, is examined through the latest narratological models, among which Ansgar Nünning’s. Through a corpus of six novels, a systematic analysis of Hasler’s poetics of the historical novel is undergone on the basis of 1) the narrative techniques, 2) the marginality of the characters in society, 3) the perception of History, 4) the critical views of Switzerland that are brought forth. From the analysis emerges a nuanced portrait of Hasler’s work, principally due to the fact that the author combines a rather traditional realistic narrative – at times inspired from a cinematographic language – with metahistoriographic passages, where the narrator offers her own reflections on History using “I”. Although these few brief passages suggest a resolutely historian position, they nonetheless pertain to fiction and the past is revitalised into present for the contemporary reader’s historical perspective. Hasler’s work thus brings together a skilful mixture of poetic liberty and care of historical veracity, the latter being compounded by the insertions in the novel of original texts in italic character. Furthermore, the issue of the marginality in society plays a leading role in Hasler’s work. In essence, her main characters are all outsiders, Außenseiter. This issue highlights the limits of the Aufklärung in that its tenants, the outsiders’ opponents, most often claim to be led by the Enlightenment, but only to pervert it even more. From this results the exclusion of those unwanted individuals: the so-called witch, the giants and the women who question the patriarchal organisation. Yet, some of Hasler’s outsiders succeed in finding a piece of freedom at the edge of society, however not without paying it to the price of their Helvetian roots. Hasler therefore aims to rectify History by giving their voice back to the outsiders. Most of them evolve only in circular fashion, individually speaking, since they never actually set foot outside the margin (except maybe Henry Dunant). The impression of going round and round opposes the linear continuum of human History, which is the result of yesterday’s exclusions foreshadowing those of today. Beyond this measure of time however, Hasler develops a conception of History that varies with the co-existing points of view. This association is more often than not imbued with pessimism, as in the case of Emily Kempin’s life and its association to the myth of Icarus. To conclude, Hasler portrays a rather retrograde Helvetian background in which the historical actors evolve. This is done not only through the fictionalization of locations, but also through references to three Helvetian symbols: the Alps, the national redoubt and the legend of William Tell. These myths, which evoke the maintenance of freedom and the protection of the “shepherds’ nation”, are brought into trial by Hasler, who proves that Switzerland does not in fact bring any fresh solutions to the challenges faced by the Occident.
Ziel der vorliegenden Doktorarbeit ist es, Eveline Haslers Poetik des historischen Romans unter den folgenden vier Relevanzkriterien zu untersuchen: 1) Erzählverfahren, 2) Außenseitertum und Gesellschaft, 3) Geschichtsbild und 4) Bild der Schweiz zwischen Mythos und Realität. Zu diesem Zweck wird ein Korpus von sechs Romanen anhand der neuesten narratologischen Modelle systematisch erläutert, welche u. a. von Ansgar Nünning weiterentwickelt oder neu untersucht wurden. Aus dieser Forschung geht hervor, dass Hasler eine besondere Rolle in der Gattungsgeschichte spielt. Denn sie verbindet eine meist realistische Schreibweise, die ab und zu von Kinoverfahren inspiriert ist, mit metahistoriographischen Passagen. In diesen Passagen kommt eine Ich-Erzählerin vor, die eine Verbindung zur Gegenwart herstellt und insofern den gegenwärtigen Leser in die Fiktion einbezieht. Obwohl diese eher seltenen Passagen an die Arbeitsmethoden des Historikers erinnern, gehören sie zur Fiktion. Haslers Romane erweisen sich als ein geschicktes Spiel mit poetischer Freiheit und historischer Wahrheit, worauf die Originaldokumente hinweisen, die kursiv in die Romane eingefügt sind. Außerdem zeigt das Außenseitertum, das Haslers Werk wie ein roter Faden durchzieht, die Grenze des aufklärerischen Denkens. Denn die meisten Gegner der sogenannten Außenseiter treten als überzeugte Anhänger der Aufklärung in Erscheinung, hinter der sie sich verstecken, um sie zu pervertieren. Trotz alledem gelingt es einigen Außenseitern, sich einen Freiheitsraum am Rande der Gesellschaft zu schaffen, jedoch nur, wenn sie bereit sind, auf den größten Teil ihrer Identität zu verzichten. Infolge ihrer sozialen Ausgrenzung wird diesen Figuren ein angemessener Platz in der Geschichte verweigert. Hasler möchte das ändern und verleiht den Außenseitern eine Stimme, um so die „offizielle“ Geschichtsschreibung zu berichtigen. Insofern versucht sie, die sogenannte offizelle Geschichtsschreibung zu berichtigen. Doch bekommt das Geschichtsbild in ihren Romanen drei Formen: eine individuelle, eine gesamtmenschliche und eine naturgebundene. Die Protagonisten sehen sich ihrerseits mit einem Kreislauf konfrontiert, denn es gelingt ihnen nicht, sich aus den sozial vorgeschriebenen Bahnen des Andersseins zu befreien. Andererseits folgt die Menschheitsgeschichte einem Kontinuum, indem die Ausgrenzungen von gestern die Gegenwart erklären. Aus ihrer ahistorischen Zeit leidet die Natur unter der unaufhaltsamen Gier des Menschen nach Reichtum. Insofern resultiert das allgemeine Geschichtsbild im Roman aus drei Perspektiven, die alle durch einen gewissen Pessimismus geprägt sind, wie das Leben von Emily Kempin es andeutet, da diese mit dem Mythos des Ikarus verglichen wird. Da alle Figuren Haslers in einen schweizerischen Kontext gehören, stellt sich zum Schluss ein kritisches Bild der Schweiz heraus, denn laut den Romanen scheut sich dieses Land vor neuen Ideen. Dieses Bild entsteht nicht nur durch die Raumsemantik, sondern auch durch die Darstellung dreier Nationalsymbole: die Alpen, das Schweizer Reduit und die Wilhelm Tell Legende. Indem sie diese Freiheitsmythen kritisiert, deutet Hasler darauf hin, dass es der Schweiz nicht besser als den anderen westlichen Ländern gelingt, eine Lösung für die Probleme des Okzidents zu finden.
Boucher, Marie-Christine. "Hugo Loetscher et l’impureté linguistique : äs tischört und plutschins : traduction et analyse des procédés d’adaptation." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12449.
Full textHugo Loetscher (1929-2009) has played an important role in Swiss-German literature of the 20th century. He is often described as a “Swiss cosmopolitan” because of the way he managed to stay interested in what was happening in the whole wide world without ever disowning his social background and his country of origin. This thesis examines an essay, äs tischört und plutschins. Über das Unreine in der Sprache, eine helvetische Situierung, which adopts a Swiss perspective to deal with the relationship between language, literature and nation – the place of minority languages in the globalized world and on the ideal of linguistic “purity” deemed questionable by Loetscher Besides proposing a translation of Loetscher’s essay still unpublished in French, this thesis explores the pertinence of the aforementioned text in the current context in Québec and the translation process of a Swiss German author’s text for a diverse francophone public based on the theories of Alfred Malblanc (comparative stylistics), Katharina Reiß and Hans J. Vermeer (skopos theory). The study addresses on the one hand the role of peritextual elements, such as footnotes, for the adaptation process, allowing the translatum, the target text as a result of the translation act, to meet its initial goal; its skopos. On the other hand, the study reflects on the use of (québécois or Swiss) regionalisms in a translatum that is in standard French, how they relate to the source text’s focus on linguistic diversity, and regional and dialectal variations.
Hugo Loetscher (1929-2009) spielte eine wichtige Rolle in der deutschschweizerischen Literatur des 20. Jh. Oft wird er als „kosmopolitischer Schweizer“ beschrieben, da es ihm so gut gelungen ist, sich für die weite Welt zu interessieren, ohne seine Heimat zu verleugnen. Das in dieser Arbeit behandelte Essay – äs tischört und plutschins. Über das Unreine in der Sprache, eine helvetische Situierung – bietet eine schweizerische Perspektive auf die Beziehung zwischen Sprache, Literatur und Nation, die Stellung von Minderheitensprachen in der globalisierten Welt und das von Loetscher kritisierte Ideal einer „reinen“ Sprache an. Nach einer Übersetzung des im Französischen bisher unveröffentlichten Essays fokussiert diese Arbeit die Relevanz dieses Werkes im quebecischen Kontext und, anhand der Stylistique comparée von Alfred Malblanc und der Skopos-Theorie von Katharina Reiß und Hans J. Vermeer, den Übersetzungsprozess eines Deutschschweizer Autoren für ein vielfältiges französischsprachiges Publikum. Einerseits wird die Rolle peritextueller Elemente, u.a. Fußnoten, im Übersetzungsprozess analysiert, welche die Erfüllung des skopos – der Zweck – vom translatum – der Zieltext – ermöglichen. Andererseits wird eine mögliche Verwendung von (quebecischen oder helvetischen) Regionalismen in einem Standardfranzösischen Translat in Bezug auf sprachliche Vielfalt und regionale und dialektale Variationen behandelt.
Maluleke, Samuel Tinyiko. "A Morula tree between two fields : the commentary of selected Tsonga writers." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18104.
Full textChristian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
D. Th. (Missiology)