Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by FAS Department "Celtic Languages and Literatures"
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Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
(2015-05-07)This study traces the cultural interplay between Irish and Old English literary landscapes. Combining an ecocritical approach to reading representations of the landscape with a comparatist perspective, each chapter shows ... -
The Fenian Narrative Corpus, c.600–c.2000: A Reassessment
(2015-05-11)This dissertation traces the historical development of the Fenian narrative tradition—i.e. the vast body of story and song, some of it well over a millennium old, about the Gaelic hero, Fionn Mac Cumhaill and his roving ... -
Heritage Welsh: a study of heritage language as the outcome of minority language acquisition and bilingualism
(2014-06-06)This dissertation analyzes the language used by 20 adult heritage Welsh speakers now living in London, i.e., bilinguals who shifted to English dominance in childhood, and whose Welsh proficiencies now show divergences from ... -
Latinity, Manuscripts, and the Rhetoric of Conquest in Late-Eleventh-Century Wales
(2013-02-07)This dissertation explores the complex interactions among written text, language choice, and political context in Wales in the late-eleventh and early-twelfth centuries. I argue that writers in medieval Wales created in ... -
Looking towards India: Nativism and Orientalism in the Literature of Wales, 1300-1600
(2014-06-06)After the conquest of 1282, Wales increasingly fell under the dominion of England and in 1535, the first Laws in Wales Act officially annexed the country. During this period of political and legal instability, Welsh men ... -
The Power of Words: Female Speech as a Narrative Force in Irish Tales across Centuries
(2013-02-25)This study is devoted to five Irish language texts composed in the period between 9th and 21st centuries: four prose tales, an Old Irish tale Loinges Mac nUislenn (The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu (before 10th c.)), two ... -
Towards a Relative Chronology of the Milesian Genealogical Scheme
(2017-01-25)As a result of Christianization, the Irish of the early historical period found a need to locate the history of their own people within that of the Bible. The result of their efforts is a body of what is termed ‘pesudohistorical’ ...