School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies: Recent submissions
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Seven Bardic poems to the Meic Dhiarmada of Magh Luirg
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Languages, 2014)This thesis consists of editions of seven previously unedited Bardic poems to members of the Mac Diarmada (Mac Dermot) family of Magh Luirg (Moylurg), Co. Roscommon. ‘Bardic poetry’ refers to the syllabic verse, written ... -
Móitífeanna agus Íomháineachas Míleata sa Dán Díreach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2012)This thesis discusses military motifs and images found in the corpus of Classical Irish poetry, composed between c. 1200 and c. 1650. Extensive use is made of examples from the strictest syllabic metre in Classical Irish ... -
Politics of cross-cultural reading : three case studies (Rabindranath Tagore, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Dario Fo)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2012)The aim of this thesis is to develop a multifaceted model by which one can engage with cross-cultural acts of reading in a meaningful way and to provide a sample of quite diverse works of world literature in translation ... -
Women writers and the Mexican Revolution
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2003)The aim of this thesis is to explore how women are represented in novels written by women which have conflict as their central thematic concern. Consequently, it was necessary to examine the context in which these texts ... -
A feminist reading of the mother-daughter relationship in Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noël
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2008)This thesis proposes a feminist reading of the mother-daughter relationship in the writings of Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noel. The texts discussed have been selected due to their feminist nature and to the importance that ... -
Twelve poems attributed to Fland Manistrech from the Book of Leinster
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2000)One of the aims of this thesis is to produce a translated and annotated text of twelve poems attributed to the eleventh-century poet, Flann Manistrech (+1056) from the Book of Leinster (Trinity College Dublin), a manuscript ... -
No es trágico fin, sino el más felice que se pudo dar : women's interrelationships in the prose of María de Zayas y Sotomayor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2008)The enigmatic figure of Maria de Zayas acquired renown during her own lifetime for her two novella collections, Novelas amorosas v ejemplares and Desenganos amorosos, which were first published in 1637 and 1647, respectively, ... -
Poems from the Nugent Manuscript
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2008)This thesis comprises an edition of nine bardic poems composed during the Classical Modern Irish period. The main source used is National Library of Ireland Manuscript G 992 (also known as ‘The Nugent Manuscript’, ‘The ... -
From the mirror to the mask : techniques of self-representation in Charles Baudelaire, Odilon Redon and James Ensor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2004)This thesis considers the question of self-representation in the art and literature of nineteenth-century France and Belgium. The evolution from the mirror to the mask as a means of representing self is discussed through ... -
A critical edition of Mittelirische Verslehren III
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2007)This thesis consists of a critical edition and translation of a Middle Irish metrical tract known as Mittelirische Verslehren III (hereafter MV III). The tract is an important source of information on rhyming syllabic verse ... -
Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) and Irish women writers : nation and transgression
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Italian Department, 2009)This analysis explores the connections between Nobel Prize winner Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) and Irish women writers, many of whom despite popularity at the time have been met with critical silence. Two dominant themes ... -
Subverted gender, destabilised identity : how Love transcends desire in the queer tragedies of Federico García Lorca
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2004)This thesis attempts to demonstrate the centrality of the dialectical tension between physical desire and metaphysical Love in the theatre works of Federico García Lorca. The study is informed by contemporary queer theory’s ... -
Míadṡlechtae : an old Irish law text on status
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2005)This thesis consists of an attempt to provide a critical edition, translation and analysis of the material contained in the Old Irish status text entitled Míadṡlechtae. Míadṡlechtae is one of a number of early Irish law ... -
An edition of De causis torchi Corc' Oche and Aided Echach maic Maireda
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2007)This thesis consists of a full edition of two early Irish texts relating to the outburst of Loch nEchach ('Echu's Lake', present Lough Neagh). The titles of these tracts are De causis torchi Core’ Oche ‘On the reasons for ... -
Religion in contemporary German-language theatre and drama
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2009)It is the contention of this thesis that religion plays a major role in a number of significant examples of contemporary German-language theatre and drama, but that it has largely been neglected by the secondary literature, ... -
Subjects not-at-home : the uncanny in Marie NDiaye, Emmanuel Carrère and Eugène Savitzkaya
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2008)This thesis is a study of the ways in which contemporary French writers exploit the themes, imagery and dynamics of the uncanny (das Unheimliche) to generate a repertoire of narrative tactics for the portrayal of the chez ... -
Kafka, Beckett, Onetti - a poetics of existential estrangement : notes towards the definition of a subgenre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2002)The following thesis was researched and written during the period October 1998 to September 2001 at Trinity College, Dublin. It originated as an investigation into the adequacy of the term 'existentialist' as applied to ... -
Mündigkeit in language learner narrative
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2009)The thesis takes as its starting point Immanuel Kant’s essay of 1784 ‘An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment’ and by careful re-definition of one of the key terms from this essay, Mundigkeit, (commonly translated ... -
Meine mir unbekannte herkunft : German identity and history in the works of W. G. Sebald, Botho Strauss and Peter Handke
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2008)This thesis analyses the work of W. G. Sebald in comparison with two other major German writers of his generation, Botho Strauß and Peter Handke. It compares Sebald's novel Austerlitz with Strauß's novel Der junge Mann and ... -
The fear and trembling of Malte Laurids Brigge
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2003)This thesis attempts to clear a space for a >transcendentalist< reading of Rainer Maria Rilke's Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) by querying the >immanentism< of much modern Malte-scholarship. In Chapter ...