Dane A. Heilner and Dr. James Lyon, Germanic and Slavic Imagine Berlin in 1911. From 1900 to 1911, the population had nearly doubled from two to four million people. Industry and commercial centers developed as well as new jobs and opportunities. Berlin was now the largest city on the continent. At the same time, culture […]
The Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood as Outlined in Lou Andreas-Salome’s Ruth
Andrea Hayward and Dr. Robert McFarland, German and Slavic Languages The transition from girlhood to womanhood is a very ambiguous concept that Lou Andreas-Salome attempts to grasp in her literary novel Ruth. Andreas-Salome was an early twentieth century author and psychologist who worked with contemporaries like Friedrich Nietzsche and Rainer Maria Rilke. Her novel Ruth […]
The Lost Diaries of Augustin Krämer
Mary Cox and Dr. Rob McFarland, German Department Virtually every significant study of Samoan culture and language published since 1900 relies on Augustin Krämer’s seminal work die Samoa Inseln. It is unusual for a scholarly ethnography to become so completely accepted and loved by an indigenous people, but die Samoa Inseln is second only to […]
PLANTS AND TRADITIONAL HEALING IN RUSSIA
Mathew Parke and Dr. Julia Nemirovskaya, Germanic and Slavic Languages, Russian “We should be endlessly thankful to the people for preserving this valuable experience in medicine. Phytotherapy without a doubt belongs to a rich future.” Professor C. A. Tomilin This project’s goals are aimed at increasing the academic community’s knowledge of plants employed by Russian […]
How Second Language Skills Benefit Third Language Acquisition
Brant Christensen and Dr. Randall Lund, German and Slavic Languages For centuries, languages and cultures were mainly restricted to the countries and regions to which they belonged and in which they were created. Today, however, with our trans-continental flights, international restaurants, and global perspective, foreign languages are becoming a part of our daily life. Such […]
Bettina von Arnim and the Importance of the Female Flaneur in Germany
Courtney Bardin and Dr. Cindy Brewer, German Department Upon realizing how deficient my German was, I decided to focus my orca report not on how the American trancendentalists affected German gehkulture, but on how American transcendentalists were influenced by german writers. More specifically I was to focus on how Bettine von Arnim influenced Emerson and […]
Rediscovering Marie Eugenie delle Grazie and “Der Schatten”
Melanie Marie Antuna and Dr. Robert McFarland, Germanic and Slavic Langauges Marie Eugenie delle Grazie is a name that not many literarians are not familiar with. Perhaps even less familiar is her play Der Schatten (The Shadow). She has been termed as a Naturalist playwright. Yet this play that many have forgotten or merely added […]
Race and Gender in Southwest Africa: A Study of German Colonial Women Writers
Amanda J. Anderson and Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, German and Slavic Languages Overlooked historically, women’s colonial literature has helped shape perspectives on race, gender and power. Male and female colonists alike carried glorious imperialistic fantasies, which can be found in the literature of the time. Specifically, German colonialism occurred much later than all other nations and […]
SUMMARY OF THE CREATIVE RESEARCH GRANT RESULTS FOR THE INTEGRATION OF GOSPEL PRINCIPLES IN BEGINNING GERMAN CLASSES
Sandra Ehlert and Drs. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling and Randall Lund, Germanic and Slavic Languages First of all, I must admit that it was more difficult than I initially thought it would be to approach this project. The curriculum for beginning German classes, as well as for other beginning language classes here at Brigham Young University, is […]
PERCEPTION AND SELF-PERCEPTION OF AFRO-GERMANS — A PORTRAYAL OF AFRO-GERMANS IN GERMAN LITERATURE
Valerie M.C.E. Dube and Dr. Michelle Stott, Germanic and Slavic Languages Researching on Afro-Germans in German literature proved to be a very fascinating, yet tedious task. The limited materials that were available to me enabled me to discover Afro-Germans as a people who are barely recognized by their fellow citizens and even less acknowledged by […]
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