This dissertation presents four texts: • Cath Leitreach Ruibhe, Dublin, RIA, MS. 1234 (C i 2), 19v-23r • Ferchuitred Medbe (ibid.), fols. 11r-13v • Oidheadh na Seacht Maine, prose text beg. Ri rogabustair airdrige for eirinn .i. eochaid feidliuch ... (ibid.), 27r-29r • Untitled metrical text beg. Cruacha Cathair Cloindi Cuind ..., Dublin, RIA, MS. 535 (23 P 2), 85a-86a All are unedited except the first listed. This study concluded they are Early-Modern Gaelic; the metrical text is dated by the scribe (1395), while language analyses places the others in the thirteenth-century. This study has five sections: 1. Introduction to tales' subject matter, manuscripts, previous research, and a suggested 'suite' of tales. I argue previous research is sparse, open to criticism, and academics disagree on composition purposes. External references and possible compilation sources are presented. I conclude the texts are 'products of their time' (Early-Modern Gaelic) – yet external evidence shows some of these tales existed in prose and metrical form in Middle- Gaelic. 2. Cath Leitreach Ruibhe and an English translation. Its language is analysed statistically and compared to the only other Early-Modern Gaelic text of it: Edinburgh, NLS, MS. 72. 1. 5. I argue both texts are post-1200 and closely linked. This tale was specifically mentioned in the 'Book of Lecan' (c.1395) by scribes. 3. Ferchuitred Medbe, and an English translation. Language analyis suggests thirteenth- 3. Ferchuitred Medbe, and an English translation. Language analyis suggests thirteenth-century. The same tale (Cath Bóindi) is in the 'Book of Lecan' (c.1395). 4. The untitled metrical text is presented with standardised Classical Gaelic and English versions. I argue this poem demonstrates skillful use of the deibhidhe metre. The poem is dated by the scribe (1395). 5. Oidheadh na Seacht Maine, and an English translation. Language analysis suggests thirteenth-century. I argue this tale is better dated by external sources used in composition, as it is clearly not as novel as the other two prose texts examined.

Orientador: Maria de Lourdes Ortiz G. Baldan / Banca: Karin Volobuef / Banca: Diana Junkes Martha Toneto / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar as transformações ocorridas em seis contos maravilhosos celtas, coletados por Ellis (1999) e Jacobs (1894; 2001), por meio da identificação de elementos tardios presentes nas narrativas, pertencentes às sociedades celta ou advindos de outras culturas, bem como alterações no estilo padrão deste gênero. Para tanto, recorremos à análise morfológica dos elementos constituintes do conto, juntamente com o estudo de seu estilo. A seguir foram realizadas análises para determinar os fatores socioculturais implicados em sua composição: as origens primitivas e mitológicas de seus motivos, os elementos inerentes à cultura celta e aqueles relacionados a fatores sociais em geral; além disso, verificamos também o percurso das principais personagens, baseado na teoria actancial. Por último, destacamos as transformações mais relevantes dos contos, identificadas por meio das informações conjuntas obtidas em todas as análises empreendidas. Esse trabalho é importante por contribuir para o estabelecimento de possíveis parâmetros de como tais contos se desenvolvem na sociedade celta, possibilitando a especificação de cânones em sua evolução, cujas informações poderão ser utilizadas como ferramentas comparativas em estudos posteriores relativos à composição de narrativas populares de outras sociedades, localizadas em diferentes regiões do mundo / Abstract: This paper‟s objective is to analyze six Celtic wonder tales collected by Ellis (1999) and Jacobs (1894; 2001), in search of their evolutionary transformations. This shall be done by identifying late elements deriving from the Celtic society and other cultures, as well as the changes in the standard style of the genre. In order to achieve that, we went through the morphological analysis of the tales‟ constitutive elements, together with stylistic studies. Next, such elements were subjected to social and cultural analysis, such as the identification of their primitive or mythological sources; those elements which were related specifically to the Celtic society and those generated by other social factors in a more general way; moreover, it was accomplished the actantial analysis of the characters‟ development. Finally, we pointed out the main transformations in the tales identified by means of the results obtained in all the performed analyses. The importance of this study lies on the possibility of establishing parameters for the tales evolution in the Celtic society, which can lead to specific canons related to this process. The results here obtained are supposed to operate as comparison tools for later researches related to the composition of this type of narrative inherent to societies other than the Celtics ones, from other regions of the world / Mestre

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-241). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

This thesis is a postcolonial study of the work of Padraic O Conaire. From the great surge of the Cultural Renaissance to the reconsolidating of conservative forces under the Free State, O Conaire's career encapsulates the defining period of modern Ireland. As the Introduction discusses, this thesis sites his work centrally in that revolutionary era, with O Conaire influenced by the great writers of European Realism who made a profound critique of their own societies with their central focus on the lived experience of the individual. Instead of the modern alienation of his characters, or the radicalism of the author's own politics, both of which comprise the most prominent strands in his critical portrayal to date, O Conaire is seen to make that necessary synthesis between the psychological and the political aspects as a creative writer. Though rooted in the historical experience of the race, the anti-authoritarian project of Postcolonialism is defined as an ongoing challenge in an age of global capitalism and the working through of the psycho-cultural effects of colonization. Noting their emphasis on the biographical element, the Literature Review examines the main contemporary full-length critical studies of 6 Conaire: P6.draic 6 Conaire - Deorai (1994) by Padraigin Riggs which investigates the themes of alienation and exile in the life and the work; Padraic 6 Conaire - Sceal a Bheatha (1995) by Eibhlin Ni Chionnaith which unearths a wealth of biographical information to finally create a portrait of a bohemian Romantic; and Reabhloid Phadraic Ui Chonaire (2007) by Aindrias O Cathasaigh, which directs its attention on O Conaire's journalism and his articulation of a revolutionary socialism; and Saoirse Anama Ui Chonaire (1984) by Tomas O Broin's which is a monograph on O Conaire's one novel Deoraiocht and argues for its socialist expressionism based on the author's lived experience. Three significant short studies out of the wide range of essays on the writer are then reviewed: 'Padraic O Conaire' by Seosamh Mac Grianna (1936) which portrays O Conaire as a heroic literary pioneer for all his faults, 'Padraic 6 Conaire agus Cearta an Duine' by Declan Kiberd (1983) which emphasizes his eccentric individualism and his socialism, and 'An tOrsceal Readach III' by Alan Titley (1991) which claims a special kind of literary realism for Deoraiocht. The remaining works of the Literature Review develop and deepen the postcolonial basis of this thesis, being significant studies in the international and in the Irish context: The Colonizer and the Colonized by the Tunisian writer AlbeIt Memmi, which is a piercing sociological and psychological exposure of the phenomenon of colonization; Tren bhFearann Breac - an Dilaithriu Culruir agus Nualitriocht na Gaeilge Ie Mairin Nic Eoin which applies a wide range of postcolonial theorizing to modern Irish language literature; and 'Decolonizing the Mind: Language and Literature in Ireland' by Gearoid Denvir which is a polemical account of the psycho-cultural aspect of colonization and also treats of the marginalization of modern Irish language and literature. The Review includes a brief examination of the work which inspired the title of Denvir's essay, namely Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The first chapter of this thesis discusses Deoraiocht as a powerful anti -colonial novel, a monologue of rebellion located in the heart of empire. The second chapter examines important statements from O Conaire's journalistic output concerning the role of the writer in society, and about Irish society itself in the troubled period from 1917-1921, in a critical context that compares the basic radicalism of the modern Russian writer with the Gaelic literary tradition. The third chapter considers O Conaire's five plays, from their original inspiration in Douglas Hyde's plays about traditional Gaeltacht society, to their development of the comic hero of European theatre. The selection of his short stories in the fourth chapter reflects the arc of O Conaire's opus, from Paidin Mhaire, the tragic victim of the colonial system, to the subversive comedy of Fearfeasa Mac Feasa with his challenge to conventional officialdom. The Conclusion looks forward as well as back in that O Conaire as a postcolonial writer straddled the official British colony founded on political, social and economic repression and the official Free State with its emerging conservative, bourgeois and religious ethos. Just like the great modernist pioneer in Irish writing in English, James Joyce, who was born in the same month as O Conaire, his own work is seen to be intimately bound up with the project of decolonization and with the realization of the individual as the embodiment of a changed society. Also, like the dispossessed Gaelic poet of the seventeenth century and the modern underground writer of the Soviet State, O Conaire's work is shown as retaining from beginning to end the integrity of the outsider committed to the truth of individual expression against the ideological control of the dominant institutions of pre- and post-imperial Irish society. If we Irish want the genuine freedom that O Conaire advocated, then we can discover the hidden foundations of our contemporary society in his work, in which there is a truthful reflection of, and liberating insight into, the period that formed today's Ireland.

Orientador: Karin Volobuef / Banca: Jacob dos Santos Biziak / Banca: Salma Ferraz de Olveira / Banca: Fabiane Renata Borsato / Banca: Maria Dolores Aybar Ramirez / Resumo: Nesta tese realizamos análises morfológicas e socioculturais de contos maravilhosos celtas, que à época de seus registros, encontravam-se em circulação nas tradições orais da Irlanda, Escócia e Ilha de Man. Aqui serão estudadas narrativas de diferentes organizações estruturais, com o objetivo de delimitarmos as principais diferenças formais e de conteúdo veiculados, seja pela presença de temas distintos, explícitos ou implícitos, ou nos modos de abordagem dos mesmos temas. Entretanto, procuramos também salientar as semelhanças mantidas por todas essas formas narrativas, as quais nem sempre são evidentes, principalmente quando relacionadas às funções proppianas e às práticas socioculturais nelas refletidas. A diferença estrutural entre os contos analisados exigiu uma combinação de diretrizes para que obtivéssemos maior precisão nas descrições morfológicas obtidas, assim, empregamos os modelos de Propp (2006), Bremond (2011) e Greimas (COURTÉS, 1979), os quais corroboraram a função de cada elemento, além de complementarem-se mutuamente, a partir de perspectivas diversas. A concepção proppiana torna-se essencial para o tipo de análise sociocultural proposta, ao remeter suas funções aos rituais tribais primais. Contudo, por ser específico aos contos de magia, certas organizações narrativas necessitaram ser delimitadas a partir dos outros dois modelos, de modo a conseguirmos remetê-las, posteriormente, às funções proppianas, ou mesmo a fragmentos delas que, de outro modo, passari... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This thesis develops morphological and sociocultural analyses of Celtic folk tales which were part of the oral traditions of Ireland, Scotland and Isle of Man by the time they were registered. We have studied narratives which feature diverse types of structural organizations to determine the main differences between them, considering both their form and contents and the manners they treat the same subjects or different ones, being them explicitly or implicitly expressed. We also intend to evince the similarities of narrative organization, which are not always so obvious, mainly when related to the Proppian functions and the social practices reflected by them. The structural deviances of such tales have demanded the use of three theoretical guidelines in order to provide a precise description of their morphology, which are the Proppian model (2006), the Bremondian model (2011) and the Greimasian model (COURTÉS, 1979), so that the elements are corroborated and complemented by considering different perspectives. The Proppian model is essential regarding the nature of the sociocultural analyses proposed here, related to tribal rituals and myths. However, being the Proppian model specific for the so called magic tales, the description of other kinds of narrative organization must be reached by means of the other two models. After that, we refer their results to the Proppian functions, or at least parts of them, so that they can be found even inside complex situations. From the obt... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-09Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:47:40Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cantarelli_rv_me_arafcl.pdf: 975746 bytes, checksum: 6701d5971ef23e695d432090aba1591d (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar as transformações ocorridas em seis contos maravilhosos celtas, coletados por Ellis (1999) e Jacobs (1894; 2001), por meio da identificação de elementos tardios presentes nas narrativas, pertencentes às sociedades celta ou advindos de outras culturas, bem como alterações no estilo padrão deste gênero. Para tanto, recorremos à análise morfológica dos elementos constituintes do conto, juntamente com o estudo de seu estilo. A seguir foram realizadas análises para determinar os fatores socioculturais implicados em sua composição: as origens primitivas e mitológicas de seus motivos, os elementos inerentes à cultura celta e aqueles relacionados a fatores sociais em geral; além disso, verificamos também o percurso das principais personagens, baseado na teoria actancial. Por último, destacamos as transformações mais relevantes dos contos, identificadas por meio das informações conjuntas obtidas em todas as análises empreendidas. Esse trabalho é importante por contribuir para o estabelecimento de possíveis parâmetros de como tais contos se desenvolvem na sociedade celta, possibilitando a especificação de cânones em sua evolução, cujas informações poderão ser utilizadas como ferramentas comparativas em estudos posteriores relativos à composição de narrativas populares de outras sociedades, localizadas em diferentes regiões do mundo / This paper‟s objective is to analyze six Celtic wonder tales collected by Ellis (1999) and Jacobs (1894; 2001), in search of their evolutionary transformations. This shall be done by identifying late elements deriving from the Celtic society and other cultures, as well as the changes in the standard style of the genre. In order to achieve that, we went through the morphological analysis of the tales‟ constitutive elements, together with stylistic studies. Next, such elements were subjected to social and cultural analysis, such as the identification of their primitive or mythological sources; those elements which were related specifically to the Celtic society and those generated by other social factors in a more general way; moreover, it was accomplished the actantial analysis of the characters‟ development. Finally, we pointed out the main transformations in the tales identified by means of the results obtained in all the performed analyses. The importance of this study lies on the possibility of establishing parameters for the tales evolution in the Celtic society, which can lead to specific canons related to this process. The results here obtained are supposed to operate as comparison tools for later researches related to the composition of this type of narrative inherent to societies other than the Celtics ones, from other regions of the world