School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies: Recent submissions
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Virtual Genfūkei: The Internet as Originary Landscape in Three Born-Digital Literatures
Digital folklorists and ethnographers have engaged with the advent of the internet age in various ways, but few scholars have approached the internet from the perspective of literary analysis to address its function as a ... -
An Argument for Regenerative Shaming Through Its use in Holocaust and American Lynching Memorials
There is a global memorial culture around the memorialization of victims of mass tragedies, but these people are dead, so then what is the goal of these radically expensive monuments? This research explores the means by ... -
Sketches of Black People by White Catalan-Cuban Intellectuals: Transculturation in Fernando Ortiz's and Jaume Valls's Afrocubanismo in 1920s Havana
(2020)The study of the raise of Afrocubanismo enables understanding of how, during the 1920s, Cuban nationalism adapted in order to exploit the recombinant qualities common to the territories of the Caribbean. Drawing on Fernando ... -
The #CommunityArchive is Trending: An Analysis of the Affordances and Limitations of Social Media as Community Archives for Collective Memory in the Public Sphere
The dissertation examines the community archive’s effectiveness in a social media context in terms of accessibility, transmission, and sustainability among other factors that deal with archival functions and goals. The ... -
The Weight of Words: Italian Translation, Adaptation, and Effective Words in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…
Abstract Being able to translate emotions is at the very least a titanic task. It is almost impossible to translate the emotional drive that an actor conveys to his audience based on the words of a script. The aim of this ... -
Dining Etiquette Culture between Northwest Europe and Northeast China in Cross-Cultural Communication
Various dining etiquettes reflect various dining cultures, and various regions have their own dining cultures. Due to globalization, the world is getting closer and closer today, understanding different dining cultures is ... -
No Man's Land: Mythology of War, Masculinity and Homeland in Greek and Serbian Aftermath Cinema
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2021)This thesis explores the dynamic between cultural mythology and trauma in aftermath cinema. After a society has experienced a significant disturbance, it is common to reckon with the stories that tell of its beliefs, ... -
On the Threshold of Jewish Identity: Tracing Postmodern Notions of Liminality and Gendered Memory in the Memoirs of Elie Wiesel and Ruth Klüger
This dissertation explores the postmodern notions of liminality and gendered memory in the memoirs Night (Elie Wiesel) and Still Alive (Ruth Klüger), and how they influence the construction of individual (and collective) ... -
Notti Magiche? Can football narratives shape the idea of a uniform Italian nation and identity? A thematic investigation.
This thesis argues that football and sport can constitute a national identity, and Italian identity in particular. With an overview of scholarship on Italian football history, nation building, sports sociology and Italian ... -
Expressions and Functions of Disgust: The City, the Self and a Solution in Art – A Comparative Analysis of Jean Paul Sartre's La Nausée and Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf
Modernist culture has engaged with the uncertainty and disillusionment of the interwar years in various ways. Among the explosion of modernist culture and its ensuing ambiguities and discontents, Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf ... -
Halls of Lost (and Found) Causes: Retracing Jewish exile, trauma and memory in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz (2001) and The Emigrants (1996)
This dissertation approaches W. G. Sebald's prose works, specifically the narratives The Emigrants (1996) and Austerlitz (2001), through an analysis focusing on Sebald's representation of Jewish exile identity in a post-war ... -
Creative Testimony and Post-War Dissociation: Witnessing the Shifting Body of Trauma in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas and the Writings of Kay Sage
Creative Testimony and Post-War Dissociation: Witnessing the Shifting Body of Trauma in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas and the Writings of Kay Sage – Echo Meredith Callaghan The impact of the trauma ... -
The Morbid Subject: A New Morphology for Analysis of the Phenomenon of Metamorphosis in Literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2021)"The Morbid Subject: A New Morphology for Analysis of the Phenomenon of Metamorphosis in Literature" is the author s attempt to formulate a cohesive and structured morphology for the phenomenon of metamorphosis as it appears ... -
John Sullivan: Linguistic servant of the French Revolution
This dissertation aims to illuminate the life and work of John Sullivan (1765–1801), an Irish translator whose career straddled the tumultuous years of the French Revolution. A narrative reconstruction of his life is based ... -
Rogha dánta as LS G 167 i Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Irish, 2021)Sa tráchtas seo tá sé dhán as lámhscríbhinn G167 (Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann) a cumadh do thiarnaí éagsúla Thír Conaill sa séú haois déag. Tá eagráin chriticiúla curtha ar fáil, bunaithe ar chóipeanna na ndánta i ... -
L'habit ne fait pas le moine: Antonine Maillet, Translation, and Acadian Identity
As a language essentially transplanted from sixteenth-century France, carrying with it the rich heritage and history of the Acadian people, the parlure acadienne [Acadian way of expression] proves central in asserting ...
