School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
Academic/Research Units within this Academic/Research Unit
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Hispanic Studies
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Irish and Celtic Studies
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Italian
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Russian & Slavonic Studies
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Recent Submissions
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Power and agency: a critical analysis of the role of mistresses in francophone African literature
(2024)In the context of postcolonial literature, mistresses are often portrayed as subjugated concubines seeking job opportunities, career advancement, and income security in societies that are characterised by stark social ... -
Pandemic natives: preschoolers� remote learning during COVID-19 confinement
(2021)The aim of this research is to analyze the development of remote learning in preschool educa- tion during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study de- ploys descriptive and inferential statistics to interpret the data collected ... -
Examining Alterity Dynamics Through the Conceptualisation and (Re)Construction of Social and Political Enemy in Post-Independent Francophone African Literature
(2024)The exploration of alterity in francophone African literature offers a rich and multifaceted understanding of identity dynamics and cultural hybridity. By examining the impact of post-independence socio-political landscape, ... -
Vanguards of the Counter-revolution: The Far-right and the French Army's Guerre Révolutionnaire Doctrine
(2023)Guerre révolutionnaire doctrine was conceived of as a riposte to the new form of warfare which the French Army encountered and fell victim to in Indochina. Taking inspiration from both the Indochina experience and communist ... -
Dante and the Arthurian Literature: Contexts, Reception and Critical Perspectives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2024)This doctoral dissertation offers the first comprehensive study of Dante¿s reception of Arthurian literature. In particular, it aims to identify the Arthurian romances that Dante knew, to define the ways in which he read ... -
The Political Influence of Translation in a time of Revolution and War in France: a Microhistory of two Irish translators Nicholas Madgett (1738-1813) and John Sullivan (1767-1802)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of French, 2024)This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of two Irish translators, Nicholas Madgett and John Sullivan, incorporating approaches from translation studies and history. Drawing principally on French archival sources, the ... -
Theatre Lindenhof as a contemporary form of German regional Volkstheater
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2017)This thesis studies Theater Lindenhof, a Volkstheater company in the Schwabisch-Alb, Baden-Wiirttemberg, Germany. Lindenhof performs from its own theatre in the small village of Melchingen and tours in Baden-Wurttemberg ... -
Translation and its fictions: pseudotranslation and partial cultural translation in focus
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-09-16)This article asks whether and what differences exist between the notions of pseudotranslation and partial cultural translation. Although they are both ultimately untranslated texts, their respective definitions acknowledge ... -
Hollow vessels : a study of some attitudinal, motivational and affective variables and their impact on L2 proficiency of English-speaking learners of French in the French Foreign Legion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2005)The present investigation sets out - within a particular instructional setting - to establish empirical evidence to support the thesis that attitudinal, motivational and affective variables are related to proficiency in ... -
Poems on the Uí Dhomnaill (circa 1641)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 1995)The concern of this thesis is to produce an edited, translated and annotated text of a set of fifteen poems composed in the mid-seventeenth century in praise of members of the Ó Domhnaill dynasty of Donegal. The main source ... -
On the Return of the (Media) Author: Michel Houellebecq, écrivain médiatique
(2020)This article argues that Michel Houellebecq is an écrivain médiatique, a media author, and examines how and why he engages in a type of authorial strategy that relies on more than the text and presents the author as a ... -
Is The Map More Interesting Than The Territory? A Post-Representational Approach to Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory
(2018)This collaborative, interdisciplinary article analyses Houllebecq’s use of crime fiction and autofiction in The Map and the Territory (2010). The novel’s intra- inter- and extra-textual geographies, including its depiction ... -
'VISUAL CULTURES OF THE BANLIEUES: PRECARIOUS PERIPHERIES OR CREATIVE CENTRES?
(2023)The Parisian banlieues have long been depicted through harmful stereotypes in political speeches, the press and mainstream film as places of violence, crime and poverty, and of social, racial and religious divisions. In ... -
Spatial Reckonings: Mapping the Raumproblem in Modern Mathematics and German Modernism, 1890-1933
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2024)Despite the often-celebrated ascent of 'interdisciplinarity' within academic research, in perhaps every setting, mathematics and the arts are still viewed as unrelated disciplines with divergent origins, influences and ... -
The impact of (un)ethical survival mode duality and choices of the educational elite on the African renaissance
(2024)In postcolonial Africa, education has always been perceived as pivotal for national and continental progress. For many Africans pursuing education abroad, the intent was to contribute to their countries’ development upon ... -
Omnium Gatherum: The Ecological Fictions of Ransmayr, Tokarczuk and Flanagan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2023)This thesis presents a comparative reading of novels by three prominent contemporary writers who engage with ecological themes. Christoph Ransmayr, Olga Tokarczuk and Richard Flanagan are all well-known writers both ... -
The Quest for Solidarity in a Failed Prescriptive and Aspirational Cosmopolitanism: African Travel Narratives and Duality of Cross-Cultural Encounters
(2023)The theme of travel has occupied a central position in African literature, as it serves as a conduit for exploring the complexities of cross-cultural interactions and the pursuit of solidarity. Travel narratives have ... -
Aesthetics of Timbre in late Eighteenth-Century and Early Romantic German Scientific, Philosophical and Music-related Literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2023)Until recently timbre has generally been considered as first emerging as a Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century concept. This interdisciplinary thesis explores the existence of timbre as a concept during the period spanning ... -
Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon (1525-1582): A Biography and a Critical Edition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of French, 2023)This thesis presents the first detailed biography of the Savoyard poet, diplomat, and historiographer, Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon (1525-1582) and the first critical edition of a selection of his works. Pingon wrote ...