Moral disgust in Klaus Mann’s Mephisto and Goethe’s Faust
- Authors: Neilson, Christopher John
- Date: 2024-10-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465934 , vital:76669
- Description: This thesis investigates the presence and effects of moral emotions within Klaus Mann’s Mephisto (1936) and Goethe’s Faust (1808) with a focus on moral disgust as understood through the theories of P. Rozin and J. Haidt. The thesis also investigates the intertextual links between Goethe’s Faust and Klaus Mann’s Mephisto, namely the presence of the katabasis and anabasis motifs found in classical literature. This is undertaken with the aim to highlight the use of moral emotions as a novel approach to the study of literature. The Faust legend features an important moment when the Faust figure enters into a deal with the devil in hopes of gaining some transitory reward in exchange for his soul, with Goethe’s Faust being the most popular rendition of the German Faust legend. It is a play that depicts the life of a restless scholar who enters into a pact with a demon named Mephistopheles in the promise that Faust will receive pleasure without satisfaction. Shortly after the National Socialists came into power in Germany in 1933, Klaus Mann would write his own interpretation of the Faust motif in response to the Nazi reign. Klaus Mann’s Mephisto details the meteoric rise of the stage-actor Hendrik Höfgen who makes a ‘deal with the devil’ by collaborating with the Nazi elite in order to further his own acting career. Mephisto is devoid of any supernatural elements; this thus removes any supernatural influence on the actions of the Nazis and the protagonist Höfgen. The moral emotion of disgust, and thus also self-directed disgust and self-knowledge, eventually saves Faust, but there is no divine force to redeem Höfgen, nor is there an actual devil or demon to blame. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Literatures, 2024
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- Date Issued: 2024-10-11
- Authors: Neilson, Christopher John
- Date: 2024-10-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465934 , vital:76669
- Description: This thesis investigates the presence and effects of moral emotions within Klaus Mann’s Mephisto (1936) and Goethe’s Faust (1808) with a focus on moral disgust as understood through the theories of P. Rozin and J. Haidt. The thesis also investigates the intertextual links between Goethe’s Faust and Klaus Mann’s Mephisto, namely the presence of the katabasis and anabasis motifs found in classical literature. This is undertaken with the aim to highlight the use of moral emotions as a novel approach to the study of literature. The Faust legend features an important moment when the Faust figure enters into a deal with the devil in hopes of gaining some transitory reward in exchange for his soul, with Goethe’s Faust being the most popular rendition of the German Faust legend. It is a play that depicts the life of a restless scholar who enters into a pact with a demon named Mephistopheles in the promise that Faust will receive pleasure without satisfaction. Shortly after the National Socialists came into power in Germany in 1933, Klaus Mann would write his own interpretation of the Faust motif in response to the Nazi reign. Klaus Mann’s Mephisto details the meteoric rise of the stage-actor Hendrik Höfgen who makes a ‘deal with the devil’ by collaborating with the Nazi elite in order to further his own acting career. Mephisto is devoid of any supernatural elements; this thus removes any supernatural influence on the actions of the Nazis and the protagonist Höfgen. The moral emotion of disgust, and thus also self-directed disgust and self-knowledge, eventually saves Faust, but there is no divine force to redeem Höfgen, nor is there an actual devil or demon to blame. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Literatures, 2024
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- Date Issued: 2024-10-11
No way to escape: a crime fiction
- Authors: Dzanibe, Nkosivumile
- Date: 2024-10-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465923 , vital:76668
- Description: This study presents a model for science engagement that incorporates journalistic approaches. This model emerges from a project that aimed to create engagement and communication around a genetically modified sugar cane variety, developed by the South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI). In this project, we engaged with small scale growers in the North and South Coast region of KwaZulu-Natal. This study’s methodology is based in action research and an iterative approach to science communication and engagement. It draws and reflects on an action research cycle captured through video documentary as a way to effectively and thoroughly collect, analyse and interpret data and produce through the case study. Based on this action research process a model for science engagement is proposed and reflected on and interrogated by scientists and science communicators through a focus group engagement (see model here as part of this thesis): https://drive.google.com/file/d/14UD1qd4fPcqIZrkESq5v2wgJ1Y2Q7hON/view?usp=sharing. I reflect, using video, on this model and how it incorporates principles and techniques for public engagement drawn from different approaches to journalism and communication studies, I argue that science engagement can benefit from drawing from journalistic approaches to public engagement such as those emerging from development communication, public journalism and development journalism. The submission of this thesis includes various other videos as part of the overall thesis. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Literatures, 2024
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- Date Issued: 2024-10-11
- Authors: Dzanibe, Nkosivumile
- Date: 2024-10-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465923 , vital:76668
- Description: This study presents a model for science engagement that incorporates journalistic approaches. This model emerges from a project that aimed to create engagement and communication around a genetically modified sugar cane variety, developed by the South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI). In this project, we engaged with small scale growers in the North and South Coast region of KwaZulu-Natal. This study’s methodology is based in action research and an iterative approach to science communication and engagement. It draws and reflects on an action research cycle captured through video documentary as a way to effectively and thoroughly collect, analyse and interpret data and produce through the case study. Based on this action research process a model for science engagement is proposed and reflected on and interrogated by scientists and science communicators through a focus group engagement (see model here as part of this thesis): https://drive.google.com/file/d/14UD1qd4fPcqIZrkESq5v2wgJ1Y2Q7hON/view?usp=sharing. I reflect, using video, on this model and how it incorporates principles and techniques for public engagement drawn from different approaches to journalism and communication studies, I argue that science engagement can benefit from drawing from journalistic approaches to public engagement such as those emerging from development communication, public journalism and development journalism. The submission of this thesis includes various other videos as part of the overall thesis. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Literatures, 2024
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- Date Issued: 2024-10-11
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