HANS MICHAEL SCHLARB

Last Updated :2024/05/07

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
E-mail
schlarbhiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
My research focuses on German Literature, especially between 1750-1925. From the 18th century onward, literature became one major tool to redefine the value systems when as a consequence of the enlightenment movement society gradually got more pluralistic and uncertain while former authorities like religion or the state lost their influence on people's understanding of identity. I particularly look at periods of intense social change, first of all the second half of the 19th century and the novels by Theodor Fontane, the most important representative of German realism at this time.

Basic Information

Academic Degrees

  • M.A., University of Mainz

Research Fields

  • Humanities;Literature;European literature

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Basic German I
  2. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Basic German I
  3. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Basic German II
  4. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Basic German II
  5. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Basic German III
  6. 2024, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Basic German IV
  7. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Intermediate Level Seminar In Integrated German I
  8. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Intermediate Level Seminar In Integrated German II
  9. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Intermediate Level Seminar In German Listening Comprehension II
  10. 2024, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Seminar in German Text Writing
  11. 2024, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Invitation to World Literature
  12. 2024, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, German Culture
  13. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Understanding Other Cultures

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Hoffmanns Erzahlstrategie im "Goldenen Topf" und ihre lebensweltliche Grundlage, Doitsu Bungaku Ronshu, 46, 21-37, 2013
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  2. Angstmechanismen. Sozialpsychologische und politische Faktoren in "Effi Briest", Journal of the School of Letters, 5, 31-46, 2009
  3. Friedrich Hebbel: "Herr Haidvogel und seine Familie" (Japanese translation), Studien zur Deutschen Literatur und Sprache, 193-204, 2005
  4. "Gelöstes Haar". Ein Nachtrag zur Adaption japanischer Kurzgedichtformen, Doitsu Bungaku Ronshu, 47-56, 1995
  5. Der "eigenwillige" Erzähler - Umwege der Interpretation von "Katz und Maus", Nagoya Daigaku Bungaku Kenkyuka Ronshu (Bungaku), 43, 131-158, 1997
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  6. ★, Masks and Fiction. The Intellectuals and the State in Mori Ogai's "Kanoyoni (As if)" (in Japanese), 135-177, 2015
  7. Die Darstellung des Judentums in Raabes "Holunderblüte", Nagoya Daigaku Bungaku Kenkyuka Ronshu (Bungaku), 49, 91-103, 2003
  8. Recognition withheld – its ways and outcomes in Fontane’s "Effi Briest” (orig. in German), Studies in European and American Culture, 23, 47-69, 20161227
  9. Social change and resentment in Fontane's "Cécile" [in German], Studies in European and American Cultures, 27, 1-21, 20201227

Publications such as books

  1. 2022/11/30, "Observation, speculation and emotion in Fontane's 'Cecile': basic emotional states guiding the construction of reality" (in Japanese), in: Yasuko Nakamura (Ed.), "Prediction and emergence: the humanities of reason, knowledge and emotion", Shumpusha, 2022, 11, Scholarly Book, Contributor, 日本語, 4861108365, 505, 117-157
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  2. 2010, Das Böse in der Literatur - gestern und heute, Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik, 2010, Others, Compilation, 日本語, ドイツ語, 9784901909716, 75, 19-40
  3. 2019/02/18, A prescription for the Age of Enlightenment: alienation mitigating poesy in Hoffmann's 'Golden Pot', in Yasuko Nakamura (Ed.), "Opening up the Non-Existent: A History of Science Spun by Literature", Shumpusha, 2019, 2, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 日本語, 9784861106354, 585, 99-142