Elements of the Englightenment in Novalis' Poetics

Paper by Gertrud Bauer Pickar, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Housto

How Attachment Style Correlates to Symptoms of Burnout for Direct Care Staff in a Company that Serves People with Developmental and/or Intellectual Disabilities

The purpose of this study is to find if adult attachment style is correlated to depersonalization, lowered sense of accomplishment, and/or emotional exhaustion for direct-care employees and supervisors in one company that serves people with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities. A thorough review of literature was completed on this topic as well as a voluntary, unpaid employee survey which determined propensity for burnout as well as attachment style. Data was gathered and analyzed and results are shared in the context of this study

"Too Manly is Your Spirit": Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff

Paper by Gertrud Bauer Picka

Game Playing, Re-entry and Withdrawal: Patterns on Societal Interaction in \u3cem\u3eBillard um halbzehn \u3c/em\u3eand \u3cem\u3eFürsorgliche Belagerung \u3c/em\u3e

Böll\u27s novel of the late \u2750s Billard um halbzehn and his novel of the late \u2770s Fürsorgliche Belagerung invite comparison, not only because of the similarities which unite these two novels published two decades apart, but also because of the differences which the comparison reveals. The differences are all the more striking because of the overt similarities between the two works. Both novels depict family dynasties; both encompass three generations; both present a strictly confined geographic area; and both take place in a dramatically limited fictional present, in which reminiscences provide insight into events and situations from the past, which permit the present to be more readily understood and evaluated. The external temporal framework, carefully constructed and observed in Billard, is restricted to one day, September 6, 1958, the eightieth birthday of the eldest member of the Fahmel family; in the case of Belagerung it constitutes a relatively confined, but less frequently defined period of some two days, following the election of Fritz Tolm to the presidency of an association of industrial and business leaders