@misc{Wiesmeier2024,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Wiesmeier, Rebekka},
  title     = {Cultural conceptualisations relating to DEATH in Irish English from a diachronic perspective},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-63871},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-638719},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {104},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {The present thesis looks at cultural conceptualisations in relation to DEATH in Irish English from a Cultural Linguistic perspective and puts a special focus on the diachronic development of these conceptualisations. For the study, a corpus consisting of 1,400 death notices from the Dublin-based national newspaper The Irish Times from 14 historical periods between 1859 and 2023 was compiled, resulting in a highly specialised 70,000-word corpus. First, the manual qualitative analysis of the death notices produced evidence for eight superordinate cultural conceptualisations surrounding DEATH, namely, in the order of their frequency THE DEAD ARE TO BE REMEMBERED OR REGRETTED, DEATH IS SOMETHING POSITIVE, DEATH IS REST, DEATH IS A JOURNEY, DYING IS THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER LIFE, DEATH IS (NOT) A TABOO, DEATH IS GOD'S WILL, and DEATH IS THE END. These conceptualisations were derived from linguistic expressions in the death notices that have these conceptualisations as a cognitive basis. Second, the quantitative comparison of the individual conceptualisations detected diachronic variation, which is interconnected with historical and social developments in Ireland. The thesis, therefore, illustrates the applicability of Cultural Linguistics as an adequate method for diachronic studies interested in culturally determined developments of conceptualisations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Schallau2024,
  author    = {Schallau, Juliane},
  title     = {"Maybe Happen Is Never Once" - temporalities of guilt in William Faulkner},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-62885},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-628858},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {iv, 171},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {This study focuses on William Faulkner, whose works explore the demise of the slavery-based Old South during the Civil War in a highly experimental narrative style. Central to this investigation is the analysis of the temporal dimensions of both individual and collective guilt, thus offering a new approach to the often-discussed problem of Faulkner's portrayal of social decay. The thesis examines how Faulkner re-narrates the legacy of the Old South as a guilt narrative and argues that Faulkner uses guilt in order to corroborate his concept of time and the idea of the continuity of the past. The focus of the analysis is on three of Faulkner's arguably most important novels: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses. Each of these novels features a main character deeply overwhelmed by the crimes of the past, whether private, familial, or societal. As a result, guilt is explored both from a domestic as well as a social perspective. In order to show how Faulkner blends past and present by means of guilt, this work examines several methods and motifs borrowed from different fields and genres with which Faulkner narratively negotiates guilt. These include religious notions of original sin, the motif of the ancestral curse prevalent in the Southern Gothic genre, and the psychological concept of trauma. Each of these motifs emphasizes the temporal dimensions of guilt, which are the core of this study, and makes clear that guilt in Faulkner's work is primarily to be understood as a temporal rather than a moral problem.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Offizier2024,
  author    = {Offizier, Frederike},
  title     = {The biosecurity individual},
  series = {American Culture Studies},
  volume    = {43},
  journal   = {American Culture Studies},
  publisher = {Transcript},
  address   = {Bielefeld},
  isbn      = {978-3-8376-7145-2},
  issn      = {2747-4380},
  doi       = {10.14361/9783839471456},
  pages     = {294},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals.},
  language  = {en}
}