Search for dissertations about: "Irish Literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words Irish Literature.

2. 1. Aided Derbforgaill "The violent death of Derbforgaill" : A critical edition with introduction, translation and textual notes

   Author : Kicki Ingridsdotter; Gregory Toner; Tomás Ó Cathasaigh; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early Irish; Old Irish; Middle Irish; medieval Irish; aideda; death-tales; Derbforgaill; critical edition; manuscript; Tochmarc Emire; Serglige Con Culainn; medieval Irish literature; Celtic languages; Keltiska språk; Celtic Languages; keltiska språk;

   Abstract : This dissertation contains a critical edition of the early Irish tale Aided Derbforgaill “the violent death of Derbforgaill”. It includes an introduction discussing the main thematic components of the tale as well as intertextuality, transmission and manuscript relationship. READ MORE

4. 2. Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society 1879-1922

   Author : Lisbet Kickham; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; English language and literature; General and comparative literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Abstract : This thesis reviews a great number of novels by Anglo-Irish women novelists that - with few exceptions - have attracted little attention from contemporary and modern literary critics. My main focus is on the literature and its society. READ MORE

5. 3. The Autonomous and the Passive Progressive in 20th-Century Irish

   Author : Karin Hansson; Ailbhe Ó Corráin; Seosamh Watson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Celtic languages; autonomous; agent; corpus linguistics; impersonal; discourse function; Irish; passive; passive progressive; patient; topicality; Keltiska språk; Celtic languages; Keltiska språk; Celtic Languages; keltiska språk;

   Abstract : The present study deals with the use of two Irish verb constructions, the autonomous (e.g. cuireadh litreacha chun bealaigh, ‘letters were dispatched’) and the passive progressive (e.g. READ MORE

6. 4. Oases of Air : A Phenomenological Study of John Banville's Science Tetralogy

   Author : Joakim Wrethed; H.W. Fawkner; David Pierce; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Banville; science tetralogy; contemporary Irish fiction; aseity; air; substance; phenomenology; intentionality; constitution; epistemology; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This phenomenological study of John Banville’s fiction exhibits the way in which Doctor Copernicus, Kepler, The Newton Letter, and Mefisto persistently present air as a constituting factor. Air occurs as a phenomenological oasis permitting constitution to effectuate disclosure ex nihilo. READ MORE

7. 5. Belfast Textiles : On Ciaran Carson’s Poetics

   Author : Jenny Malmqvist; Lars-Håkan Svensson; Jan Anward; Ann-Sofie Persson; Charles Armstrong; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Irish poetry; Ciaran Carson; poetics; intertextuality; translation; Irländsk poesi; Ciaran Carson; poetik; intertextualitet; översättning;

   Abstract : This thesis is a study of the formation and development of Ciaran Carson’s poetics from his debut in the 1970s up to and including his fourth principal collection of poems, First Language, published in 1993. Examining Carson’s recourse to different kinds of rewriting, made manifest as intertextuality and translation, it aims to account for the thematic formulation and formal realization of this poetics. READ MORE