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The Art of J. M. Synge: A Developmental Study
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The Deirdre Theme in AE, W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge
… and later by their younger colleague, J. M. Synge, into plays of outstanding worth without losing any of its distinctive loveliness, is the subject matter of this dissertation.</p>
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The limits of myth and place in J.M. Synge's "Deirdre of the sorrows" and Brian Friel's "Faith healer".
… the limits of myth, nature, and place in J.M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows and Brian Friel's Faith Healer. In Deirdre of the Sorrows, I argue that Synge remythologizes the Irish Deirdre myth in such a way that intends to remove fantastic elements from the tale. As he does so, he replaces the …
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Greek Elements in John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea
John Millington Synge’s Riders to the Sea is a tragedy -- the tragedy of a whole people earning their living upon the surging breakers, battling against the monstrous waves in their small curaghs, with dark fate ever brooding over them. The islanders’ fear and hatred of this inexorable fate is …
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The stratigraphy and morphology of Pleistocene deposits in County Waterford (with special reference to the Ballyvoyle Till)
… the two ice masses were broadly contemporaneous, Synge (1977) suggested that the glacigenic sequence predated the deposition of the underlying raised beach and was subsequently soliflucted downslope to Its present stratigraphic position overlying the raised beach unit.
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Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927)
… Jin (1875-1907), and, finally, John Millington Synge (1871-1909) and Cao Yu (1910-1996). The research is based on archive consultation, drawing upon a consistent number of Chinese primary sources. The work sheds new light on the reception, within the May Fourth cultural and political movement, …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… obscurity. William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and Lady Augusta Gregory's plays frequently and selectively refer to two such vernacular traditions: the caoineadh and the Irish wake. This study analyzes plays produced by the Abbey theatre during its formative years that intermingle …
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
… removal, Yeat's contemporaries such as J. M. Synge and Bernard Shaw evolved his vision, creating a criticism and, ultimately, a rejection of Irish priests. In doing so, these playwrights created depictions of absent, ineffectual, and pagan priests that have endured throughout the twentieth …
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‘Synge we now alle and sum’: three Fifteenth-Century collections of communal song: a study of British Library, Sloane MS 2593; Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1; and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54
The manuscripts British Library, Sloane MS 2593, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1, and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54 are compact collections of song lyrics written during the fifteenth century, largely without notation. My thesis seeks to develop responsive ways of reading these …
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The Darwin debate in Dublin, 1859-1908.
… work produced by Dublin born men such as Yeats, Synge and Wilde. Important debates were taking place over the land question, the university question, the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the rising influence of Rome. It comes as no surprise that the study of Darwinism in this …
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General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations of black hole accretion disks: dynamics and radiative properties
… $T_p/T_e$ is constant and constructed a new Synge-type equation of state that takes the effect of two temperature fluid as well as variable adiabatic index caused by the non-relativistic to relativistic transition of the particles into account. We found that the effect of the Synge-type …
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'His own privacý: Frederic Manning: a critical and historical analysis
… perceived in William Morris, Thomas Hardy, J.M. Synge, Henri Bergson’s philosophy, and in his fascination with twentieth century developments in dramatic construction. The conclusion reached is that, based on the diversity of material and consistent quality of Frederic Manning’s canon, his …
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"Something for the Dignity of Ireland:" Lady Gregory's Portrayal of Deirdre and Maeve in <em>Cuchulain of Muirthemne</em>
… with peers such as W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge. Several of Lady Gregory's plays such as Urania and Kinconi are contrasted to <em>Cuchulain of Muirihemm</em> to demonstrate that Lady Gregory can, and did, write about strong, independent women.</p> <p>As a nearly literal translation of the …
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"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts
… Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People. Each text comes from a different historical moment, but each of these moments is distinguished by major change, a change so paradigm-shifting as to be worthy of the …