School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies: Recent submissions
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Mediated immediacy : published diaries of World War II as media of war memory in East and West Germany 1945-1990
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2009)This study explores the specific role played by published diaries in the negotiation and renegotiation of public war memories in East and West Germany from 1945 to re-unification. It does so by asking which war diaries ... -
Bodach an Chóta Lachtna: eagrán nua
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Irish, 2019)Tá prós na Nua-Ghaeilge Moiche (c. 1200–1650) ar na réimsí is lú de litríocht na Gaeilge a ndéantar staidéar ná plé orthu. Príomhaidhm an tráchtais seo is ea dul i ngleic leis an mbearna seo sa léann trí eagrán scolártha ... -
"Cher maître et ami" : edizione critica delle lettere di Eugenio Montale a Valery Larbaud e altri documenti Montaliani (1925-1939)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2005)This dissertation is centred on the critical study of the correspondence of Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) with the French writer Valery Larbaud (1881-1957). The epistolary documents - several of which hitherto unpublished - ... -
Anamorphic texts : Stendhal, Baudelaire, Lacan, Derrida
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2000)This thesis proposes that a textual equivalent of pictorial anamorphosis exists. Just as a painting or element within a painting may become suddenly visible when it is viewed at an angle, a written text may need to be read ... -
Glück in the narratives of Jörg Wickram
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2001)In this thesis I want to consider the concept of glück, the German equivalent of Fortuna, in the narratives of the sixteenth century author Jörg Wickram. I will focus on two major themes in Wickram's representation of ... -
An edition of Talland Étair
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2004)The edition is based upon my own readings from the manuscript sources used. This ensures that any previous misreadings are not inherited into the present work and that I alone become responsible for any misreadings which ... -
Modern intersections of Utopian imagination and gender discourse with special reference to texts by Hauptmann and Wedekind
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2005)Gerhart Hauptmann's novel Die Insel der grossen Mutter oder das Wunder von lie des Dames together with its paralipomena, and Frank Wedekind's incomplete and fragmentary Die grosse Liebe together with the published novella ... -
Roger Caillois : searches for wholeness
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2000)This thesis argues that the primordial concern in Roger Caillois's oeuvre is his search for wholeness. It follows this search through Caillois's often controversial and always challenging involvement in a wide range of ... -
René Schickele, Alsace and the question of cultural identity : a study of Hans im Schnakenloch and Das Erbe am Rhein
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2004)My thesis entitled, 'Rene Schickele, Alsace and the Question of Cultural Identity. A Study of Hans in Schnakenloch and Das Erbe am Rhein' is a comparative investigation into issues of politics and cultural identity in ... -
Formalism and parody in Bruno Schulz
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2002)This thesis presents a systematic formal analysis of Bruno Schulz's prose fiction. It applies the methods of study developed by Formalists to aspects of the text ranging from minimal units such as choice of vocabulary to ... -
Down Mexico Way : identity, community and deracination in post-1960s Mexico and Chicano cinema
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2001)Much attention has been paid to the complex and frequently antagonistic relationship between Mexico and the United States. These neighbouring nations share the longest border in the world and have had close contact over ... -
The Scamander group : the poets and their poetry, 1918-1929
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2002)This work explores through critical analysis the poetry of the Scamander poets between the years 1918 to 1929, a time during which the group was formed and was most active in pursuing what could be described as a group ... -
Defining & redefining the margins : an exploration of the discourse of post-coloniality in the verse of Nicolás Guillén, Pablo Neruda & Ernesto Cardenal
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2000)History teaches us that the imposition of hegemonic structures of the colonial centre can only be truly effective and complete when the cultural personality of the dominated community has been displaced. Aspects of the ... -
La versification Verlainienne ou la prosodie de l'indécidabilité
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2000)This thesis is divided into three main sections: an introduction, a study of Verlaine's use of metres and a study of a number of specific poems from Verlaine's complete works. The introduction has two parts. The first ... -
Points of passage : an exploration of the theme of the threshold in the poetry of Jacques Réda, Jean-Claude Renard, Pierre Oster, Philippe Jaccottet and Alain Bosquet
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2003)This thesis proposes an investigation of contemporary and near-contemporary French poetry and an exploration of the poetic imagination, using a thematic approach based on a Jungian/Bachelardian concept of imaginary symbolism ... -
The Moon among Stars and The Throne in the Forest : Image and formula in the 'Nibelungenlied' and the 'Ramayana'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2002)The point of reference in earlier comparative studies of epic featuring either the medieval German Nibelungenlied or the ancient Indian Ramayana as one component of the comparison has been narrative content, narrative ... -
Representations of ambiguity in selected writings by women from Guadeloupe and Martinique
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2003)This thesis looks at selected writings of women from Martinique and Guadeloupe through the complex theme of ambiguity. The novels and short stories of authors such as Mayotte Capécia, Myriam Warner-Vieyra and Maryse Condé ... -
Unfettering constraint : deconstruction and the question of interpretation in the work of Georges Perec
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2002)The prolific body of work which Georges Perec produced in a remarkably short period of time is notoriously heterogeneous (from 1965, the date of publication of his first novel, Les Choses, until his death in 1982, his published ... -
Elementos barrocos en la obra esperpéntica de Valle-Inclán : una cala quevedesca
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2005)Critical writing on the work of Valle-Inclan has focused mostly on its relation to aesthetic tendencies of his time, with the intention of assessing it in the context of European art. By contrast, his interest in Baroque ... -
La verve Rabelaisienne dans un corpus de romans Québecois et Antillais contemporains
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2004)This thesis investigates a corpus of contemporary Quebec and French West Indian novels using a mainly formal approach, based on the concepts of stylistics as a deviation from the norm, and to a lesser extent, of magical ...
