School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies: Recent submissions
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The fabric of Old Belief : staroobriadtsy - traditions of clothmaking, dress, and ritual from the 17th to the 20th century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2000)The theme of this dissertation is the relationship of textiles to Old Belief, a religious minority formed after the raskol or schism in the Russian Orthodox church in 1666/1667. Within this theme I also investigate the ... -
Schutzraum Familie? Strukturen und Typologien von Bespitzelungsprozessen innerhalb von Künstlerfamilien in der DDR
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2018)This thesis investigates the interdisciplinary topic of surveillance within intellectual families in the former GDR by the secret police [Staatssicherheit], primarily focussing on those families in which one partner or ... -
SURVEY AND CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF WATER SYMBOLISM IN THE ANCIENT BABYLONIAN AND EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGICAL CYCLES
This thesis focuses primarily upon obtaining a greater understanding of Babylonian and Egyptian mythical environments, through the use of water symbolism within the physical and mythological frames of their cosmological ... -
The Old English Account of the Seven Heavens
(Celtic Studies Publications, 2014)Edition and translation, with introduction and notes, of the Seven Heaven section in the composite Old English homily on Doomsday in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (CCCC) 41, pp 287–95, the relevant section being on pp 292–5. -
Perspectives of collectivisation: Popular opinion and memory in saxony and lower silesia, 1948-1961
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Russian, 2017)The collectivisation of the East German and Polish agriculture in the 1950s and 1960s stands at the centre of this thesis. The diverging experiences of collectivisation in East Germany and Poland are investigated through ... -
Towards a postcolonial translation : Patrick White's Voss in Italian and French
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2014)This thesis examines the novel Voss (1957) by the Australian writer Patrick White with the aim of defining a) potential issues of translatability and ethics arising from the text’s postcolonial hybrid culture b) the actual ... -
The writer as translator : the Einaudi series Scrittori tradotti da scrittori
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2015)This study investigates translation by creative writers as a separate instance from translation by ‘ordinary’ (professional) translators. The research takes its cue from the Einaudi series ‘Scrittori tradotti da scrittori’. ... -
Dialogues with history : discourses of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Dictatorsip in the Spanish novel (1996-2011)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Drawing upon the novelistic and linguistic theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis investigates the narrative strategies used by four novels to inscribe, challenge or subvert current and past discourses about the Spanish ... -
An exploration of the esoteric and music in the novels and short stories of Julio Cortázar
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Far from being polar opposites, esoteric elements and musical motifs complement one another in enriching our construal of the prose fiction of Julio Cortazar. Although numerous studies deal with discrete esoteric themes ... -
Imagination in novels and autobiography in letters : the female presence in Juan Valera's life and fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Juan Valera (1824-1905) left behind a substantial epistolary corpus. Some of the author’s letters have been destroyed over the years, others lost, but all those penned by Valera which still exist have been painstakingly ... -
Literary selfhood : autofiction and the construction of personal identity in the work of Nina Bouraoui
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2014)The problem of "identity" forms a central theme of much contemporary French life- writing, and within recent work by women writers, and writers from other minority backgrounds, the autobiographical enterprise is often ... -
A critical editon of Aided Chonchobair 'The violent death of Conchobar' with translation, textual notes and bibliography
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2015)This thesis is a critical edition of the Old and Middle Irish versions of Aided Chonchobair ‘The violent death of Conchobar’. AC belongs to the aided category of tales of the Ulster Cycle. It has been transmitted in four ... -
Embodied words upon the stage : W.B. Yeats, translation and theatre-making
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2015)This thesis starts out with an analysis of Yeats's reception in Italy over a century, which shows how his dramatic production was relegated to a position of lesser importance, whereas his reputation as a poet gradually ... -
Suffragism and italianità : political and literary discourses of women's citizenship in Italy, 1900-1923
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2014)The present research sets out to trace distinctive patterns of language use around the issue of women’s suffrage in early-twentieth-century Liberal Italy. In particular, the question of how women’s identities were constructed ... -
The Judeans of Elephantine : an examination of the Elephantine communities in Egypt during the Persian period
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2014)The central question of this thesis is to determine the underlying reasons behind the destruction of the temple of Yahu in Elephantine. I intend to bring together an examination of the Judean community in the Egyptian ... -
Forbairt litríocht Ghaeilge na nÓg, 1926 - 1967
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2015)Is éard ata sa tráchtas seo ná cuntas agus anailís ar ré ar leith i stair litríocht Ghaeilge na n-óg. Breathnaítear go croineolaíoch ann ar na forbairtí móra a tháinig ar an litríocht sin idir na blianta 1926 agus 1967. ... -
The labyrinth and the wasteland : Spatial coordinates of the German image in nineteenth-century Russian literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2011)An analysis of the literary stereotypes of Germans in 19th century Russian literature with specific attention to how these images describe Russia in spatial terms and construct Russian identity. Considering the prevalence ... -
Responding to the challenge of political violence : the Catholic hierarchy in Northern Ireland (1921-1972) and the Basque Country (1936-1975)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2010)This thesis will examine the response of the Catholic hierarchy to political violence in Northern Ireland (1921-1972) and the Basque Country (1936- 1975). These were critical years in the political development of both ... -
Childness and the writing of the German past : a study of the narrative functions of tropes of childhood in German literature 1990-2001
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2010)The thesis examines the narrative functions of tropes of childhood in a selection of post-reunification German novels for adults. The methodology is based on a practice of close textual analysis, focusing particularly on ...