English (Theses and Dissertations)
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The Legends of the Lady: Finding Truth Through Transformation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis examines the concepts and roles of disability, disfigurement, sovereignty, and ageism in medieval Irish and English Loathly Lady texts, as well as select texts that contain disabled and disfigured characters. ... -
Ayn Rand and the posthuman : the mind-made future
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)American novelist Ayn Rand's documented influence on politicians, economists, and businesspeople, makes her work an ideal case study for fiction's impact on society. This thesis considers Rand’s veneration of technological ... -
Estrange conflict : fragments of the Irish Troubles in the science fiction of Bob Shaw and James White
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)A study of the work of the Belfast science fiction authors Bob Shaw and James White, two hitherto ignored authors in Irish Studies. Much written about Shaw and White has originated from British and American science fiction ... -
Saints and Celibates : Protestant Identity in the Irish Novels of William Trevor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1999)This thesis focuses purely on Protestant identity in three Irish novels by William Trevor, namely: Fools of Fortune, The Silence in the Garden and Reading Turgenev. -
"Welcome to the Good Life!" Neoliberalism(s) and Contemporary Irish Women's Short Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis examines the ways in which neoliberalism as a pervasive economic, political, and cultural discourse is represented, recreated, and subverted in contemporary short fiction by Claire Keegan, Nicole Flattery, Lucy ...