TTLV: Folk cultural symbols in WB Yeats' poetry

1. Student's full name: NGUYEN HONG NGA 2. Gender: Female
3. Date of birth: October 27, 1994
4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Decision on student admission No. 2948/QD-XHNV dated December 28, 2021, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in the training process:
(Note the types of changes and the corresponding times)

7. Thesis Title: Folk Culture Symbols in WB Yeats' Poetry
8. Major: Foreign Literature; Code: 8229030.03
9. Scientific supervisor:
(Please specify your scientific title, academic degree, full name, and workplace.)
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, Faculty of Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
10. Summary of the thesis results:
(Summarize the results of the thesis, emphasizing any new findings.)
Although W.B. Yeats is a Nobel Prize-winning poet and has been globally renowned for over 100 years, he has not received widespread attention in Vietnam, neither among academic nor general readers. Throughout Yeats' literary career, folklore inspiration is a viable approach to begin researching and introducing Yeats in Vietnam. This thesis studies folklore symbolism in W.B. Yeats' poetry, drawing on Irish folklore. Using the structural and semiotic methods of Iu. Lotman, this study examines mythical figures and spaces in relation to: the semiotics of Irish culture and national history; the structure of folklore symbolism in W.B. Yeats' poetry along the axis of paradigms and phrasal structures; and the discrepancy between "Irish identity" and "Irish character" in W.B. Yeats' poetry. The study of the symbolic structure in Yeats's poetry reveals: 1) the shifting of the lyrical persona within poetic space and the role of geographical space in relation to the persona; 2) how the sense of mythical persona-mythical space constructs national discourse; and 3) the gray areas of national identity in Yeats's poetry. This topic is a development of a 2007 student scientific report on WB Yeats's poetry and the author's 2020 graduation thesis, with the desire to extend the exploration for a new research direction in Vietnam.
11. Practical applications: This thesis can be used as a reference for research topics in related and closely related fields: folklore, comparative literature, Irish literature, WB Yeats, English poetry, semiotics, Tartu cultural semiotics, cultural symbols, symbols in poetry, national discourse, national identity.
12. Future research directions:

13. Published works related to the thesis: None
   
 

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

 

1. Full name: NGUYEN HONG NGA 2. Sex: Female
3. Date of birth: October 27, 1994 4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Admission decision number: 2948/QD-XHNV Dated December 28, 2021
6. Changes in academic process:
(List the forms of change and corresponding times)

7. Official thesis title: Symbols of Folklore in WB Yeats's Poetry
8. Major: Foreign Literature 9. Code: 8229030.03
10. Supervisors:
(Full name, academic title and degree)
Dr. Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, Faculty of Literature, University of Social sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University.
11. Summary of the findings of the thesis:
(Summarize them with stress on the new findings, if any)
Although WB Yeats was a Nobel Prize-winning poet and has been internationally famous for over 100 years, he is still not widely recognized in Vietnam by both academics and mass readers. Being exploited throughout Yeats's literary career, folklore inspiration is a viable approach to begin researching and introducing Yeats in Vietnam. The thesis studies symbols of folklore in the section of WB Yeats's poetry that includes Irish folk literature. By Ju. Lotman's structural and cultural semiotic methods, this research surveys symbols of mythical characters and spaces in relation to: Irish cultural semiosphere and Irish national history; the structure of folklore symbols in WB Yeats's poetry according to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes; and the disparity between “Irish identity” and “Irishness” in WB Yeats's poetry. Describing the structure of the symbolic system in Yeats's poetry helps reveal: 1) the movement of lyrical characters in poetic space and the role of geographical space for the characters; 2) how the sense of mythical character-mythical space constructs national discourse; and 3) the gray area of ​​national identity in Yeats's poetry. This topic is a development from a 2007 student science report on WB Yeats's poetry and the author's own graduation thesis in 2020, with the desire to expand exploring a new direction of research in Vietnam.

12. Practical applicability, if any: The thesis can be used as a reference for similar topics in the right and close fields: folklore, comparative literature, Irish literature, WB Yeats, English poetry, semiotics , cultural semiotics of Tartu, cultural symbols, symbols in poetry, national discourse, national identity.
13. Further research directions, if any:

14. Thesis-related publications: None