Browsing Russian & Slavonic Studies (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Lost letters : translating Milan Kundera's Czech fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2002)The present thesis, Lost Letters: Translating Milan Kundera's Czech Fiction, in com paring the Czech, French and English versions of Milan Kundera's first six prose works, proposes that the original Czech language texts ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...