Browsing Russian & Slavonic Studies (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Formalism and parody in Bruno Schulz
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, 2002)This thesis presents a systematic formal analysis of Bruno Schulz's prose fiction. It applies the methods of study developed by Formalists to aspects of the text ranging from minimal units such as choice of vocabulary to ... -
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 ... -
Translators in Fabula: Bridging Transfiction and Translator Studies through a Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Italian Narratives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Russian, 2024)The presence of translators as characters in literary texts was first named “transfiction” in 2014 (Kaindl, 3-4). Much research to date on transfiction takes the form of isolated case studies, being largely influenced ...