School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies: Recent submissions
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Translingual Empowerment: Exophonic Women’s Writing in Catalan and Spanish
(2022)On claiming that a language constitutes ‘the only country without borders’, German-Bosnian writer Saša Stanišić taps into the multifaceted debates surrounding its role in literary practice. Throughout history, the global ... -
Eco Artivism in Galician Feminist Fiction: Teresa Moure's A intervención (2010)
(Legenda - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2023)If small literatures have been consistently banished to the margins of history, their women’s voices have been doubly silenced. Narrative by women writing in the language of Galician from the non-state Atlantic nation ... -
Feminisms at Work: The (Re)Production of Gender and Culture in Contemporary Galicia
(2022)Dynamic, multifaceted and multimodal feminist and woman-led artistic production has made its mark in the Galician cultural sphere in recent years. Non-canonical artistic formulations located on the fringes of, and often ... -
Weeping and smiling in Dante's works
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2022)This study shows the function and significance of tears and smiles in two of Dante's major works, the Vita Nuova and the Commedia, filling a lacuna in the existing literature: this dissertation constitutes the first ... -
Unity-in-Variety, admiratio, and Verisimilitude in the Interpolated Stories of Don Quijote, Part One
(2022)The interpolated stories included in Don Quijote, Part one have frequently been studied as oppositional to the main plot in function of thematic binaries such as literature-life, illusion-reality, truth-fiction, idealism-realism ... -
A new social media conscious approach to Celebrity Translators: a case study of Italian influencer Francesca Crescentini aka Tegamini
This work aims at providing a different contemporary perspective on Celebrity Translators in the context of modern society immersed in social media and influencer culture. The main research question is can influencer ... -
At the crossroad of unexplored paths: cultural back-translation and fantasy
Cultural back-translation is the translation into language B of a text written in language A that takes its cultural basis from culture and language B. The peculiar translation trajectory involves a cultural return that ... -
Connecting People to Climate Change Action: Informing Participatory Frameworks for the National Dialogue on Climate Action (C-CHANGE)
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2022)Ireland has committed to becoming a net-zero and climate-neutral economy by 2050. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act set this ambition in legislation, while the Climate Action Plan defines the pathway ... -
A comparative analysis of two writing styles: Latin American magical realism represented by García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Chinese hallucinatory realism represented by Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
In 2012, Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His work differs from traditional socialist realism but draws on the writing techniques of many world literature, including Latin American magical ... -
The International Self: Comparative analysis of Gilles and A Dark Night's Passing
This dissertation aims to analyse the thematic similarities of the heroes of Drieu La Rochelle's Gilles and Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing in orther to produce an international conception of the Self as embodied by ... -
Building Virtual Worlds: Comparing the Values Behind Virtual Worlds in Academic Scholarship and Video Games
Virtual worlds have recently emerged as innovative tools in studying, preserving, and presenting history and cultural heritage. Within the digital humanities, scholars have begun deploying virtual worlds as a method of ... -
Between Playfulness, Trauma, and Autofiction: Postmemories of Childhood in Dictatorial Argentina and Chile
This dissertation explores the dynamic between postmemory, trauma, playfulness, and autofiction in The Rabbit House by Argentinian writer Laura Alcoba and Space Invaders by Chilean writer Nona Fernández. Since the early ... -
Consenting in the Grey Area: Towards an Ontology of Sexual Consent
The so-termed ‘grey area’ of sexual consent has perplexed culture and critics alike since its initial coinage by journalist Laura Stepp in a 2007 Cosmopolitan article as ‘sex that falls somewhere between consent and denial’. ... -
Roots, Tentacles and Words: The Representation of Animals and the Environment in the Contemporary Works of N. Scott Momaday and Linda Hogan
Scholars claim that the current environmental crisis is of anthropogenic origin: caused by humans. However, it is important to distinguish between the harm that western civilizations and the capitalist system has caused, ... -
An Exploration of Chinese International Students's Perceptions of How Their Identities Change Under the Impact of Covid-19
After the outbreak of Covid-19, there is evidence to suggest that there had been an increase in discrimination against Chinese international students globally. During the pandemic, students were required to follow control ... -
Looking for Lukács: Examining Five GDR Novels in Translation
Certain translations into English published in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Socialist German state that existed from 1949 to 1990, have attracted attention both from translation scholars and literary translators. ... -
A Bloody Success: Mapping the success of #LahuKaLagaan through network analysis
A Bloody Success: Mapping the success of #LahuKaLagaan through network analysis - Nazma Kazani This thesis investigates the narrative agency and connective action of hashtag campaigns by focusing on one hashtag that went ... -
Faith and Suspect: A Comparative Analysis of Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary and Cervantes' Don Quixote from the perspective of madness
Don Quixote and A Madman's Diary are two significant works in the history of world literature, both from literary giants and composed at a similar historical stage, i.e., the period when modernity took place. However, there ... -
Analysing the Textual Variance in Terry Pratchett's The Carpet People
This dissertation analyses the textual variance between Terry Pratchett’s two versions of The Carpet People. The dissertation uses the mixed methodology of close and distance reading to highlight the differences between ...
