Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Narratives of difference : critical (re-)assessment of contemporary Troubles novels
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This dissertation examines the concept of difference as portrayed in contemporary Troubles novels and explores how it affects the sense of belonging to the contested space of Northern Ireland. It analyses a cross-section ... -
'The New Womanly Man': Cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis, ‘The New Womanly Man’: Cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries, explores questions of gender identity and performance by examining depictions of cross-dressing and gender inversion ... -
Nostalgias of innocence and guilt : the post-Cold War reflections of John Updike and Don DeLillo
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This thesis examines the post-Cold War work of the American novelists John Updike and Don DeLillo, paying particular attention to the manifestations and treatment of nostalgia in these texts. Focussing primarily on the ... -
'Not so much 'after landscape' as 'before landscape'': Figurative Experimentation in the Works of Claudia Rankine and Mary McIntyre
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis argues that the place of the self and the figure in the works of poet Claudia Rankine and visual artist Mary McIntyre is integral to their formal innovation and shared attention to the ethics of visual ... -
(Not) Everything ends in tears : individuals, communities, and peacemaking in the Íslendingasögur
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2017)The íslendingasögur, or Icelandic family sagas, represent a deeply introspective cultural endeavour, the exploration of a nation of strong-willed, independent, and occasionally destructive men and women as they attempted ... -
Notorious amateurism : professionalism and patronage in Wyndham Lewis's art-criticism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)It is the objective of this thesis to trace in the art-criticism of Wyndham Lewis a trajectory of a certain model of professionalisation. In my introduction I trace a crucial fault-line along which the discourse of artistic ... -
On the uses and disadvantages of history for Ireland : James Joyce and nationalist historiography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)Nationalism saw a tremendous rise in Ireland during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, culminating in the Easter Rising and the formation of the Irish Free State. James Joyce's reading and interpretation ... -
Orientations: the positions and aesthetics of contemporary migrant fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)Touching on the work of David Dabydeen, Caryl Phillips, Fred D’Aguiar, Jamaica Kincaid, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi I will examine, in this thesis, the political, aesthetic and historical orientation ... -
Others had the making of me : the cultural construction of serial murder
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis examines the framing devices which are used to interpret serial murder and their role in shaping our understanding of this most disturbing subject. Each chapter considers a period of writing which, I have argued, ... -
'Our Modern Hope': An Analysis of Unorthodox Religion in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and Juan Ramón Jiménez
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)The theological modernist movement articulated many of the issues that literary modernism went on to develop, particularly in relation to religion and the individual s place within it. Theological modernism had a profound ... -
"Perilous movement" : deconstruction and the discourse of conflict
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis examines the relationship between the discourses of the university and the public press through an analysis of the work and career of Jacques Derrida. The conflictual nature of the reception of deconstruction, ... -
Political visions : George Russell, 1913-1930
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)George Russell, poet and author, was a contemporary of W. B. Yeats and a figure central to the Irish Literary Revival. My thesis concentrates on his editorship of two journals, the Irish Homestead and the Irish Statesman, ... -
Politics and national identity in the works of Frances Burney
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis analyses the novels and plays of Frances Burney in order to highlight the author's engagement with political concerns of her time, including the concepts of national identity and sympathy. Groups who experienced ... -
Prompting prudence : early modern revenge drama and the memory-training tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis examines the methods by whieh revenge playwrights direct playgoer attention to significant moments in their plays. My contention is that many of the devices employed by these playwrights in their dramaturgical ... -
Proximate foreigners : England and its neighbors in the history plays of the 1590s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)The central claim of this thesis is that the correlation between the rise history play genre in the 1590s, concerns about national identity, and emerging disputes over expansion collided in the political/cultural views of ... -
Puritan responses to antinomianism in the context of reformed covenant theology: 1630-1696
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)This thesis analyzes the way in which six seventeenth-century puritans from both sides of the Atlantic responded to antinomians—those accused of rejecting divine law—and the methods these six puritans used in their responses. ... -
Queer be dragons: Mapping LGBT fantasy novels 1987-2000
(Trinity College Dublin, 2016)Fantasy, considered as a genre, is an ideal space to represent the queer, strange, and different in ways that attract both a readership of enjoyment and the academic critic. It should therefore be well-placed to include ... -
Randall Jarrell, canonicity, multiplicity, travesty : the apocalyptic margins of the still, human center
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)The thesis finds that Randall Jarrell's writing fails to meet the expectations of the American canon and travesties the aesthetic conventions of American literary modernism. It is often kitsch or melodramatic, it can be ... -
Reading Forests, Seeing Trees: Visual Poetry with Neurohumanities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)The new contexts of visual materiality engendered by the internet and digital age problematise traditional strategies of critically analysing experimental forms of poetry. By approaching poetry across history as a phenomenon ...