School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies: Recent submissions
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San abhainn do léim bardán : An Bheatha, An Bás agus an Teanga i bhFilíocht Choilm Bhreathnaigh
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Irish, 2020)Is file tábhachtach é Colm Breathnach i nualitríocht na Gaeilge agus is é seo an chéad mhonagraf critice atá tiomnaithe dá shaothar. Sa tráchtas seo, déantar mionanailís ar shaothar filíochta Choilm Bhreathnaigh. Déantar ... -
Editing and translating he young Mario Praz: A journey through his unpublished juvenilia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2020)This doctoral thesis aims to present the first ever edition and translation of three unpublished juvenile texts written by Mario Praz, who is considered the godfather of Comparative and Cultural Studies. The first text I ... -
The Future Is Pynk: Resistance In the Afrofuturist Aesthetic of Janelle Monáe
This dissertation contextualizes Afrofuturism within the realm of aesthetics of resistance. Afrofuturism can be characterized as being a disruption within whitewashed epistemological discourses that are used to interpret ... -
Translingual Literary Practice: Literatures in Contact
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2020)Abstract: A Translingual Literary Practice: Literatures in Contact The aim of this thesis is to explore literary translingualism. The translingual is a term that is becoming widespread in academia, but is still in need of ... -
'Figlio d'esseri umani': Animals in Italo Calvino's War Novels and Novellas (1947-1957)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2020)On November 17, 1946, the former Partisan and budding Italian writer, essayist, and intellectual, Italo Calvino, wrote an article for L'Unità against the atomic bomb testing done in the Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands. ... -
Parler pour gouverner: Trois études sur le discours présidentiel français
(Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, 2016)Three statistical studies applied to presidential discourse (vocabulary, themes and style).The campaigns for the presidential elections of 2002, 2007 and 2012 reveal personalisation, tension and a growing level of ... -
The Aesthetics of Effacement: A comparative study of the Literary Output of Nikolai Gogal and Oscar Wilde
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Russian, 2019)This thesis is the first comprehensive comparative study of the 19th-century RussoUkrainian satirist Nikolai Gogol and the 19th-century Anglo-Irish satirist Oscar Wilde, presenting a survey of their thematic and stylistic ... -
Raum-Zeit des Terrors - Struktur und Inszenierung des Terrorismus und seine Darstellungen im Film
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2011)This thesis investigates whether terrorism has a filmic form or structure and if this cinematic structure corresponds to the staging and production of terrorism. Furthermore, it explores the extent to which the cinematographic ... -
Eachtra ghiolla an amaráin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2010)Is é a chuireas romham sa tráchtas seo ná eagrán den dán Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin, le Donncha Rua Mac Conmara, a chur ar fáil. Seo dán a scríobhadh i lár an ochtú céad déag, a chuireann síos ar 'eachtra' a tharla don ... -
Deconstructing Hegel's sign-making imagination : Derrida and the textual imagination
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2012)Following the identification of ways in which deconstruction and imagination suggest the possibility of shedding light upon one another, I seek to overcome certain objections to the notion of a textual or deconstructive ... -
Modern fools : an errant journey from the Quixotic to the Kafkaesque
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2013)The work of Cervantes and Kafka would appear to have little basis for comparison on initial inspection. However, by means of a very close reading of, and dialogue between, Cervantes' Don Quijote and Kafka's Das Urteil and ... -
Autobiographical progression : Christa Wolf's Nachdenken über Christa T., Kindheitsmuster and Ein Tag im Jahr
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2009)Christa Wolf's Nachdenken über Christa T., Kindheitsmuster and Ein Tag im Jahr constitute a significant contribution to the field of women's autobiographical writing in their in-depth questioning of autobiographical ... -
Everyday Active Citizenship the Balkan Way: Local Civil Society and the Practice of 'Bridge Building' in Two Post-Yugoslav Cities
(Peter Lang, 2016)Active citizenship in the post-war Western Balkans has traditionally been studied in the context of either Western-style (and usually foreign-funded) Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) or, more recently, protest ... -
Mediated desire. Third-party involvements in the love relationships of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2011)Exerpt from introduction: When it comes to desire and love in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, the traditional critical emphasis has been on the interiority, verging on solipsism, which seems to characterize these ... -
Americanization and the role of cinema in shaping early Soviet culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2011)This dissertation argues that the Americanization discourse of the 1920s was one of the key sources for the project of creating the New Soviet Man and Woman, and that Soviet cinema of the 1920s and 1930s played an important ... -
From ways of seeing to ways of being : a study of the phenomenological and ontological dynamics of vision in the fiction of Julio Cortázar
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2013)The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that the dynamics of vision in the fiction of Julio Cortazar can be successfully analysed as paradigmatic of phenomenological ontology. A close and comprehensive reading of ... -
The literary patronage of Lodovico II Gonzaga, Marchese of Mantua 1444-1478
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2010)The scope of my research was to bring to life the figure of Lodovico Gonzaga as an erudite humanist statesman. Although he is often framed in such terms, conventional definitions such as "pupil of Vittorino da Feltre" ... -
Performing Bürgerlichkeit : the German bourgeoisie and contemporary theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2012)This dissertation will investigate Bürgertum and Bürgerlichkeit and their relevance to the work of three contemporary German theatre directors; Michael Thalheimer, Thomas Ostermeier and René Pollesch. While the concept of ... -
Post-Yugoslav Everyday Activism(s): A Different Form of Activist Citizenship?
(2017)Activism is typically associated with work within charities/NGOs or participation in social movements. This essay highlights activism different from these forms in that it happens without funding or mass mobilisation. ... -
Umberto Eco and Rabelaisian grotesque : Bakhtinian echoes and sociopolitical criticism in the fictional works of Umberto Eco
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2013)Despite the fact that Eco is a world-renowned public intellectual with an evident desire to contribute to the changes of contemporary Italian society, scholarly literature has given little attention to the sociopolitical ...
