"Childhood“ as a motif of conflict in Marie Luise Kaschnitz' short stories ,,The fat child'', ,,Long Shodows'', ,,Popp and Mingel''

• Main Authors: CHU, CHUEH-YING, 屈覺盈
• Other Authors: Luzia, Mei-ling Wang
• Format: Others
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49231298829790580693

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 德國語文學系碩士班 === 103 === Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974), a German writer of the postwar era, wrote short stories after the Second World War. She was one of most significant writers of the post-war in Germany and received many literary awards. Many of her short stories were inspired by her memories and events in her real life. “Childhood” is always an important motif in her works. The topic of this thesis is “childhood” as conflict motif in her three short stories: “The fat child”, “ Long shadows” and “Popp and Mingel”. The main issues which are discussed in this thesis are such as parent-child relationships, self identity, the transformation from childhood to puberty, problems of latchkey child, and challenges of working mother. In this thesis I used narrative analysis and Psychoanalysis to understand the poetic intention of Kaschnitz, the aesthetic function of the stories and the relation between the stories, the writer and the phenomenon of the society in the 1950s and 1960s.