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“michaela tomberger”

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  • New novels for young readers in/of the 1980s - Narrative strategies and presentation of the novel's world

    by Michaela Tomberger ...
    Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Good, University of Vienna (Anglistics-American Studies), language: English, abstract: When during the 1980s short novels like Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' (1984), Bret Easton Ellis' 'Less Than Zero' (1985), Tama Janowitz' 'Slaves of New York' (1986) or Michael Chabon's 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' ... Read more

    $44.28 USD

  • Images of post-unification Germany in Henry James´ travel sketches: "Homburg Reformed" and "Darmstadt"

    by Michaela Tomberger ...
    Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Good, University of Vienna (Anglistics/American Studies), course: The Image of German Speaking Countries in American Texts from 1860 to 1930, language: English, abstract: The first chapter of this paper presents a survey of Henry James’ biography. Special emphasis is given to his experiences in Germany. The ... Read more

    $16.86 USD

  • Norman Mailer's 'The Naked and the Dead' - An analysis

    by Michaela Tomberger ...
    Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: very good, University of Vienna (Anglistics/ American Studies), course: Journalism and Fiction in the United States, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the relationship between fiction and traditional and New Journalism. I have taken Norman Mailer´s novel 'The Naked and the Dead' as an example of ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

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  • The world of yesterday

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    The World of Yesterday, Zweig's memoir, was completed shortly before his suicide. It charts the history of Europe from nineteenth-century splendour, decadence and complacency, through the devastation of the First World War, to the resultant brutality and depravity of the Nazi regime. ... Read more

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  • My German Question

    Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

    by Peter Gay ...
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