Andreas Raab – författare

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1, University of Vienna, course: Novels of the Nineties, language: English, abstract: The plot of Charles Higson's novel Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen published in 1996 is fairly straightforward. In the first chapter of the book the protagonist or anti-hero of the novel, who is telling the story at the same time, stabs Mister Kitchen with a candlestick during a quarrel they have while Mister Kitchen is visiting the protagonist to buy his car. In the course of the text the anti-hero desperately tries to get rid of the (more or less) dead body, a task that becomes both his destiny and burden. Whenever the protagonist seems to get one step closer to dispose of Mister Kitchen, he is thrown back at least two steps due to a consistent unfortunate concatenation of events. Finally, all of the protagonist's bad luck combined with his inability to a make plans that work literally lead to his downfall. It is this ending of the novel that raises the most challenging question since the protagonist's further fate is up to the respective reader's interpretation. In addition, the reader does not only never gets to know the narrator's name, but he/she also does not know his motivation for telling the story. However, these matters basically revolve around the central question whether the protagonist dies or stays alive at or after, respectively, the end of the novel. The main aim of this paper is, therefore, to examine whether the story is or can be told by a dead narrator. This problem will be discussed by means of relating it to and embedding it into a general analysis and description of the novel s narrative techniques. Since the topic of this paper is narratological in its character and since there is an obvious relation between the subject-matter of this essay and the novel s narrative situation, this is of crucial importance to fully grasp the issue and to discuss it comprehensively. Thus, this paper is basically divided into two main parts. The first part presents a general overview of the novel s narrative techniques and particularly focuses on characterisation in the novel and on the reliability of the narrator. In the second part of this essay some readings that either support or oppose the fact that the story is told by a dead or dying narrator are specified. All these interpretations will be based on evidence from and related to the text itself. On the whole, this essay will encourage different approaches to answer the underlying question of this essay, namely whether Charles Higson s novel Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen features a dead narrator.

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Miscellaneous, grade: 2, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper deals with culture-specific concepts in language and is divided into two parts. The first part aims at providing a comprehensive theoretical summary of the terms 'culture' and 'language', with a special focus on exploring its interrelation. In addition, this paper explores whether and, if yes, how certain culture-specific concepts can (or cannot) be translated into other languages. The second part largely provides examples of culture-specific concepts in various languages. The linguistic concepts explained and discussed are from various languages, for instance from Russian and Hebrew. However, a special emphasis will be given to English and German.

Document from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: This project report presents a genre analysis of CEO statements. The corpus of relevant texts consists of 20 examples, the CEO statements of 3M, Air Berlin, Alcoa, Allianz, Beijer Electronics, Coca Cola, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Exxon Mobil, Gerflor, Holcim, Intel, Interamerican, JSE Limited, Nissan, O2, Small Business Technology Institute, Telecom, TNT and T-Rex Corporation. All the texts can be found on the Internet and are taken from the websites of the respective companies. The main focus of this project is a linguistic analysis of the genre CEO statements, whereby a move structure of the genre is identified and lexico-grammatical features are pointed out. Typical text patterns of CEO statements are included in these chapters. Furthermore, this project report contains sections that deal with the description of the analytical process as well as with problems encountered and insights gained. Besides, a context is presented in which this analysis can be applied to a teaching situation.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1, University of Vienna, course: 18th Century Satire and Satirical Literature, language: English, abstract: In this term paper I focus on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, as a political satire, a book rich in its topics and possible interpretations. However, the novel's function as a political satire - which I exemplarily examine in this paper - is one of its most discussed and obvious ones. Thus, I have a close look at whether, why and how the politician Sir Robert Walpole, a contemporary of Jonathan Swift, is - satirically - represented in Gulliver's Travels. In order to fully grasp this issue, I start with a summary and comparison of both Jonathan Swift's and Robert Walpole's (political) backgrounds, beliefs, values and ideas, embedded in the historical context of the early 18th century. Then I continue with a discussion that mainly focuses on the following questions: Does the character Flimnap merely represent Robert Walpole or does it rather stand for politicians in general? What could have been Jonathan Swift's (political) intentions to do so? And, finally: How does satire as such then function in this case?

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1, University of Malta, course: The Maltese National Experience: From Occupation to Statehood, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this essay is to comparatively discuss imperialism and popular culture using Malta as a case study. At first, the concepts of imperialism and popular culture are described and the question whether these two terms are related is introduced. Second, these concepts are applied to Malta, whereby the description of the Mediterranean island's situation also exemplarily represents the spread of popular culture to huge parts of the world. Third, this essay contains a discussion of the (potential) advantages and disadvantages or opportunities and dangers, respectively that the spread of popular culture throughout the globe (can) bring(s) with it, also focusing on the situation of Malta. Finally, the text summarises the discussion of the issue in how far the increase of popular culture can be seen as imperialistic in its character.

Digitalisierungsprozesse und Anliegen einer digitalen Bildung prägen aktuell das Schulwesen. Dies wurde durch die Covid-19-Pandemie zusätzlich verstärkt. Gleichzeitig wird digitale Technologie im Freizeit- und Leistungssport umfassend genutzt und ist allgegenwärtiger Bestandteil der Bewegungs-, Spiel- und Sportkultur. Daher ist die Einbindung digitaler Technologie auch als Thema für den Bewegungs- und Sportunterricht relevant. Zentrale Akteur*innen der Umsetzung curricularer Neuerungen und didaktischer Innovationen sind die Lehrkräfte. Ziel dieses Buches ist, den Beitrag, den der Einsatz von digitaler Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IKT) zu einem zeitgemäßen und zielorientierten Bewegungs- und Sportunterricht gegenwärtig und perspektivisch leisten kann, herauszuarbeiten. Den theoretischen Rahmen bildet die Verknüpfung der bildungswissenschaftlichen Diskussion zur fortschreitenden Digitalisierung in Schule und Unterricht mit pädagogischen, didaktischen und curricularen Ansprüchen an das Fach Bewegung und Sport. Im empirischen Teil werden die Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Interviewstudie mit Bewegungs- und Sportlehrkräften zur Einbindung digitaler Technologie dargestellt und diskutiert. Zusammenfassend werden Empfehlungen für den qualitätsvollen Einsatz von IKT im Bewegungs- und Sportunterricht abgeleitet.