Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Before George Eliot : Marian Evans and the mid-Victorian periodical press
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)Before she became 'George Eliot,' Marian Evans worked for over ten years in the periodical press. This thesis clarifies the nature and the significance of that work from 1846-1857. Dismissed in critical and biographical ... -
Behind their eyes : identity in the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)The introduction to this study outlines the theoretical framework for comparing the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim. Using Walter Mignolo's theories about "border thinking," which he outlined in Local Histories/Global ... -
The Calendar and the Scop: Beowulf as an Example of Anglo-Saxon Discourses on Time
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)In this thesis, I analyse Beowulf as a self-reflexive poem on time based on representations of time in the Anglo-Saxon period. The question of time transcends the long-standing issue of the dialectic relationship between ... -
Completing the union : Charles Robert Maturin and the (ir)reconciliations of romantic national fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis analyses the novels of Charles Robert Maturin in order to highlight the author’s engagement with contemporary literary forms, including the Gothic, the national tale, and the historical novel. By first offering ... -
Consider the editor : textual process in the fiction of Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis examines the contribution of Gordon Lish and Michael Pietsch to key works of Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace, respectively. The Prologue situates the two authors in a historical framework, considering ... -
Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged ... -
Daniel Defoe and the representation of personal identity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores Daniel Defoe's treatment of the concept of personal identity as a literary construction and as a social fiction. An active contributor to the burgeoning print market of early eighteenthcentury England, ... -
Displaced masculinity : men, women and gender disorientation in contemporary Scottish fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)The subject of this thesis is the representation of gender in Scottish fiction since 1980. In writing of this period the stereotype of the Scottish 'hardman' gives way to portraits of uncertain and ineffectual male characters. ... -
Do you know who I am? : contextualising Shirley Jackson
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis attempts to broaden the current critical approach towards Shirley Jackson by discussing her work within the cultural, social, literary and historical contexts of America during the 1950s. This is the first time ... -
Echoes traveling off from the center : contemporary poetic engagements with the poetry of Sylvia Plath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)The introduction of the thesis makes clear the vital need for this study and explains how its methodology privileges poetic practice rather than critical narratives as it centres on close readings of a range of poems by ... -
'Exogamous Brides' : representations of inter-faith relationships in Irish fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This study offers a comprehensive assessment of how a broad range of Irish novelists depicted mixed marriages or inter-faith relationships from the 1860s to the 1960s, and argues that heterogeneous depictions of these ... -
Food and Power in Roald Dahl's Children's Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2017)This thesis examines the representation of food and power in Roald Dahl's children's fiction written between the years 1961 and 1990. This thesis explores how the relationship between food and power in Dahl's biographical ... -
Giving those angry ghosts their due : Louis McNeice's intertextual dialogue with W. B. Yeats
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis examines the nature and significance of Louis MacNeice’s engagement with W.B. Yeats. Throughout the 1930s, and the early years of the 1940s, MacNeice sought to evaluate Yeats’s legacy. His preoccupation with ... -
Golden apples of the monkey house : a post-Jungian interpretation of myth in the short stories of Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)[exerpt from page 8] This dissertation is cast with hope of drawing scholarly attention to these writers' short fiction [Vonnegut and Bradbury], arguing in the affirmative that there is plenty to be found in these critically ... -
Good enough to eat : a study of cannibalism in literature and film in the twentieth century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis is an examination of the cannibal figure in 19th and 20th century literature and film. The cannibal transgresses boundaries of normality and morality and is thus considered Other. As a transgressor of boundaries, ...