Browsing Masters Dissertations & Portfolios by Date of Publication
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The representation of Orhan Pamuk's novels in Brazil as (indirect) translations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, 2023)The aim of this dissertation is to ask the following question: (how) are the books by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk representing themselves as (indirect) translations in Brazil? The methodology consists of analysing 7 novels ... -
Solitary Women: a literary translation portfolio
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, 2023) -
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Are Linguistic Rights Respected in Taiwan?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, 2023)The objective of this dissertation is to examine how Taiwanese authorities protect linguistic rights and embody the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) perspectives in the policy documents Bilingual 2030 (National ... -
Creative Testimony and Post-War Dissociation: Witnessing the Shifting Body of Trauma in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas and the Writings of Kay Sage
Creative Testimony and Post-War Dissociation: Witnessing the Shifting Body of Trauma in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas and the Writings of Kay Sage – Echo Meredith Callaghan The impact of the trauma ... -
The Future Is Pynk: Resistance In the Afrofuturist Aesthetic of Janelle Monáe
This dissertation contextualizes Afrofuturism within the realm of aesthetics of resistance. Afrofuturism can be characterized as being a disruption within whitewashed epistemological discourses that are used to interpret ... -
Flipping It Further: A Feminist Retranslation of 'Bonjour Tristesse' by Francoise Sagan
The feminist translation movement grew out of a hive of feminist activity in the 1970s and 1980s in France, the US and Canada. Women writers at this time pounced on the Derridean reassessment of the stability of meaning ... -
Social Network Analysis and the Dynamics of Love in Early Modern Drama - Digitally Visualising Love Interactions in the Works of William Shakespeare
This thesis combines the fields of social network analysis and early modern drama in order to gain new perspectives on the dynamics of love-based interactions in the works of English playwright William Shakespeare. Using ... -
"Writing Back" - How non-Western authors represent postcolonial identity in literature
"Writing Back" examines and compares how non-Western authors tell the story of the harmful impact of British colonialism on post-colonial conflict and displacement in two of the most ethnically diverse and highly populated ... -
Virtual Genfūkei: The Internet as Originary Landscape in Three Born-Digital Literatures
Digital folklorists and ethnographers have engaged with the advent of the internet age in various ways, but few scholars have approached the internet from the perspective of literary analysis to address its function as a ... -
An Argument for Regenerative Shaming Through Its use in Holocaust and American Lynching Memorials
There is a global memorial culture around the memorialization of victims of mass tragedies, but these people are dead, so then what is the goal of these radically expensive monuments? This research explores the means by ... -
The Traveller as a Translator: Intralingual Translation in Brazilian Road Films
This dissertation aims at answering the following question: what are the visual and thematic choices in the representation of intralingual translation in Brazilian cinematic travel narratives? The corpus of analysis is ... -
Front Cover Translator Visibility and Language of Publication in the Context of Fiction Published in Canada
The names of translators often, perhaps even usually, do not appear on the front covers of books they have translated. When their names do appear on front covers, they tend to be presented as inconspicuously as possible. ... -
The Scarlet Convent: An Analysis of the Outcast Female Body in the Fictions of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Toni Morrison
This dissertation investigates how the female body is represented and defined in literature through instances of psychological transformation and/or exile, utilizing Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection and the analysis ... -
Machine vs Human: translating metaphor in The Picture of Dorian Gray
This project examines how metaphors in The Picture of Doran Gray are translated by machine translation (MT) and human translators (HTs), by comparing solutions provided by Google Translate with existing published translations ... -
The history of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s anti-Semitic pamphlet Bagatelles pour un massacre in Italian and English translations: the Contradictions of Censorship.
This dissertation offers a case study of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s anti-Semitic pamphlet Bagatelles pour un massacre (1937) in English and Italian translations with a particular focus on the forms of censorship applied ... -
Through the Translation Prism: Proliferation, Permutation, Potential
Over the past four decades or so, conceptions, theories and practices of translation have experienced an unprecedented liberation from the shackles of tradition. For the most part, this liberation has been driven by bold ...