Russian & Slavonic Studies (Theses and Dissertations)
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Becoming-Sarmatian, becoming-Steppe. Deleuzoguattarian multiplicities / thresholds / potentialities and the art-work of Marek Konieczny
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2016)The present dissertation maps out the artistic practices of the Polish neo-avant-garde artist Marek Konieczny between 1962 and 1986. Marek Konieczny is a Warsaw-based artist who since the late 1960s has embarked on a ... -
Colour terms in Russian healing charms as expressions of illness and health
Healing charms have been in use for more than a thousand years and are part not only of Russian folklore, but also of the Russian folk healing system. This thesis explores the semantics of colour terms in healing charms, ... -
Aidan Higgins's Fictions and Aesthetics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Russian, 2020)This doctoral thesis seeks to articulate how visual comparisons may help readers to understand the complexity of ways of seeing in Aidan Higgins's main fictions, Felo de Se (1960), Langrishe, Go Down (1966), Balcony of ... -
The Aesthetics of Effacement: A comparative study of the Literary Output of Nikolai Gogal and Oscar Wilde
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Russian, 2019)This thesis is the first comprehensive comparative study of the 19th-century RussoUkrainian satirist Nikolai Gogol and the 19th-century Anglo-Irish satirist Oscar Wilde, presenting a survey of their thematic and stylistic ... -
Americanization and the role of cinema in shaping early Soviet culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2011)This dissertation argues that the Americanization discourse of the 1920s was one of the key sources for the project of creating the New Soviet Man and Woman, and that Soviet cinema of the 1920s and 1930s played an important ...