Browsing School of Creative Arts by Date of Publication
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Present laughter : humour at the site of impact in theatre performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2000)This dissertation examines the implications for the humorous transaction at its immediate site of impact within mimetic theatre performance, as given to the bodied subjects involved. The thesis establishes its theoretical ... -
Issues of gender in the texts of Ulster theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)This thesis is neither a history nor an exact socio/political documentary of Ulster Theatre. However, within textual readings, both discourses are employed to examine issues of gender within a context of more familiar ... -
Peter Sellars and the persistence of modernity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)If language is subjective, if the sign is unstable, if meaning is endlessly deferred, how is it possible to assume a position of moral critique? Confronted by persistent social crisis, the American theatre and opera ... -
Template morphology and serial invariants : compositional procedures in Stravinsky's late sketch collections, 1958-66
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2001)This thesis employs unpublished holograph sketch and draft material now in the possession of the Paul Sacher Stiflung, Basel, to investigate how serial deployment and the exploitation of row properties in the later works ... -
Determinism, aleatorism and tradition : the relationship between the analysis and compositional technique of selected music from 1945-64
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2001)During the period under consideration in this study, serious music was concerned with a fundamental reassessment of compositional technique and aesthetics. Various different and sometimes opposing techniques were developed ... -
The eighteenth-century music manuscripts at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin: sources, lineage, and relationship to other collections
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Drama, Film and Music., 2002)This thesis examines the music manuscripts copied before 1800 that survive in the music library at St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin. Prior to this study, these manuscripts had not been investigated in a comprehensive way. ... -
Dream Country : the Ireland text in French cinema, 1937 to 1978
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2002)This thesis is an exploration of the Ireland text in French cinema, 1937-1977. Less than one hundred feature films have been made by Irish film-makers in Ireland in cinema’s first century but more than two thousand fiction ... -
Wooden, wounded, defaced : performing the body in Irish theatre 1983-1993
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2002)Wooden. Wounded. Defaced-Performing the Body in Irish Theatre 1983-1993 uses a four-chapter structure to consider the issues of performance and representation in Irish theatre, the specific circumstances within which Irish ... -
Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation
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Premise and compositional working-out : an examination through analysis of Ligeti's changing style
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2002)In many of his interviews and writings from the mid-eighties, Ligeti talks of a crisis in his compositional output, and his move to a simpler style. This thesis takes the form of three detailed analyses of works which span ... -
Private parts, public bodies : cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth Lecompte
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)In this thesis I ask what cross-dressing can tell us about the formation of identity in performance. I argue that the use of cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth LeCompte can be used to challenge and ... -
The thrill of estrangement' : ethnicity and theatrical reality in Les Amertumes, Combat de Negre et de Chiens and Quai Ouest by Bernard-Marie Koltes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This thesis consists of an analysis of ethnicity and modes of theatrical reality in three plays by French dramatist Bernard-Marie Koltes, made possible by a convergence of critical strategies from postcolonialism, phenomenology ... -
Landscapes, voices and corporealities of excess in the theatre of Marina Carr
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This Ph. D. thesis concerns the plays of contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr from 1989-1998. In the first section of this introduction I will contextualise the background, career and plays of Marina Carr within the ... -
Chopin's strategic integration of rhythm and pitch : a Schenkerian perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2003)This thesis synthesises significant aspects of recent analytical approaches and applies that synthetic method to selected works by Chopin. While the method may be regarded as an extension of Heinrich Schenker’s analytical ... -
Badness. Good, isn't it? A bit of badness : Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of 'Deviance' and the Irish theatrical tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2004)This thesis is a study of the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. McGuinness was bom in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland in 1950. His first play, The Factory Girls, was produced in 1984. ... -
Narrative and ideology in contemporary Hollywood cinema, 1990-1999
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2004)The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between ideology and the narrative structure of popular Hollywood cinema in the 1990s, particularly the manner in which a closed narrative structure serves ... -
Beyond the 'Gothic' : Havergal Brian and his orchestral music of the 1930s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2004)This thesis presents the most detailed study yet of the music of the English composer William Havergal Brian (1876-1972). It concentrates on the orchestral music written in a single decade — the 1930s — at a time when he ... -
The role of rhythm in the construction and articulation of form in the late works of Alban Berg
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2004)This thesis examines rhythmic construction in the works composed by Alban Berg between the years 1923 and 1935. It begins by discussing the type of rhythmic and motivic development which was an intrinsic part of the technique ... -
Deconstructing the nation : the Abbey Theatre and stage-Irishness on screen, 1930-1960
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2004)This thesis examines the consequences for representations of the national through national discourses of the increasing artistic and technical collaboration that occurred between the Abbey Theatre and a number of film ... -
The globalisation of Robert Lepage : Québécois cultural politics and contemporary theatre practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2005)This thesis is an analysis of four productions by the quebecois theatre artist Robert Lepage, and of their reception. 1 chose these productions because they broadly cover the span of Lepage's career to date (1980s: Vinci ...
