School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies: Recent submissions
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Les Manuscrits vaudois de Trinity College Dublin
This doctoral thesis focuses on the Waldensians, members of a Christian movement which originated in France in the twelfth century, and more specifically on their religious literature in the Occitan language. Many of these ... -
Decorative Translation: A Translation Strategy Falling Between ‘Foreignization’ and ‘Domestication’
This dissertation aims to argue that there is a third option between ‘foreignization’ and ‘domestication’ by suggesting the experimental methodology ‘decorative translation’. The new strategy will combine the features of ... -
Front Cover Translator Visibility and Language of Publication in the Context of Fiction Published in Canada
The names of translators often, perhaps even usually, do not appear on the front covers of books they have translated. When their names do appear on front covers, they tend to be presented as inconspicuously as possible. ... -
The Traveller as a Translator: Intralingual Translation in Brazilian Road Films
This dissertation aims at answering the following question: what are the visual and thematic choices in the representation of intralingual translation in Brazilian cinematic travel narratives? The corpus of analysis is ... -
A Study of the Translation into Spanish of Dialects and Accents in Brendan Kennelly's The Florentines and The Crooked Cross
This dissertation aims to create one accent and one dialect in Spanish by translating the dialects and accents found in Brendan Kennelly´s novels The Crooked Cross and The Florentines. I will look at various scholars and ... -
Remixing Transmedia for Cultural Heritage Sites: The Rhetoric, Creative Practice, and Evaluation of Digital Narratives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2020)In the digital age, cultural heritage tourists need to invest a lot of time and cognitive effort into hunting and gathering cross-media content about a destination and then connecting it into a cohesive sense of a place. ... -
Machine vs Human: translating metaphor in The Picture of Dorian Gray
This project examines how metaphors in The Picture of Doran Gray are translated by machine translation (MT) and human translators (HTs), by comparing solutions provided by Google Translate with existing published translations ... -
Through the Translation Prism: Proliferation, Permutation, Potential
Over the past four decades or so, conceptions, theories and practices of translation have experienced an unprecedented liberation from the shackles of tradition. For the most part, this liberation has been driven by bold ... -
The history of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s anti-Semitic pamphlet Bagatelles pour un massacre in Italian and English translations: the Contradictions of Censorship.
This dissertation offers a case study of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s anti-Semitic pamphlet Bagatelles pour un massacre (1937) in English and Italian translations with a particular focus on the forms of censorship applied ... -
The Scarlet Convent: An Analysis of the Outcast Female Body in the Fictions of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Toni Morrison
This dissertation investigates how the female body is represented and defined in literature through instances of psychological transformation and/or exile, utilizing Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection and the analysis ... -
In-Group-Language Oriented Translation: Investigating Explicitation in a Pajubá Translation of Edna O'Brien's 'The Doll'
This dissertation aims to investigate the possible occurrence of effects over Explicitation in a translation of Edna Obrien's short story 'The Doll' using Pajubá¡, an African-Brazilian in-group language used by the LGBTQIA+ ... -
The role of Albania and Kosovo in the 'South-Eastern Turn' in contemporary German language literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2020)The so-called Eastern Turn in contemporary German-language literature references writers from Eastern Europe and former Yugoslavia who have settled in the German-speaking countries since the fall of Communism , as defined ... -
Aidan Higgins's Fictions and Aesthetics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Russian, 2020)This doctoral thesis seeks to articulate how visual comparisons may help readers to understand the complexity of ways of seeing in Aidan Higgins's main fictions, Felo de Se (1960), Langrishe, Go Down (1966), Balcony of ...
