Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Laying in the Dark: The Literary Night in Nineteenth-Century American Prose
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)This thesis examines nineteenth-century American prose via the lens of night studies, to demonstrate how the literary night was used to construct and challenge issues of gender and race in the United States. It focuses ... -
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. ... -
Literary exhortations : the early fiction of George A. Birmingham
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis will demonstrate the important cultural contribution of the early fiction of the Irish writer George A. Birmingham (1865 - 1950). Born in Belfast on the eve of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and ... -
Lolita and the Mythologies of Femininity
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Looking at Novels: Typography, Punctuation, & Spelling in Some Contemporary Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)Looking at Novels: Typography, Punctuation, & Spelling in Some Contemporary Fiction by Francis Leahy Abstract This is a study of the visual appearance of some contemporary novels. The thesis uses an interdisciplinary ... -
Louis MacNeice : radio, poetry and the aural imagination
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The aim of this thesis is to give serious consideration to the relatively neglected radio dramas and features of Louis MacNeice, showing how they were an imaginative and innovative development of what was at the time an ... -
Louis MacNeice and the Writing of the Mind
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This thesis explores the influence of psychology and philosophy of mind on the writing of Louis MacNeice. This challenges current thinking on MacNeice s treatment of selfhood and consciousness, which has previously been ... -
Maculate conceptions : Irish film and drama of the 1930s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)In the 1930s Ireland grasped the opportunity to define itself as a modern free state and the decade is thus one of the most dynamic in Ireland’s history since Independence. Within the space of ten years, Fianna Fail came ... -
'Manhattan weighed on his eyelid' : reading Ted Hughes in the context of four American writers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)The introduction to this thesis documents and establishes Ted Hughes' growing interest in American writing while at Cambridge and suggests that Hughes' engagement with American writing from this point in his career onwards ... -
Maria Edgeworth : a sense of place
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)The life of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was characterised by one event which was to have a lasting influence on her self-determination as a person and a writer. This event was her move in 1782 to Edgeworthstown, a small ... -
Maria Edgeworth and romance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This dissertation concentrates upon an important tension manifest across Edgeworth’s prolific writings, and it contends that this tension finally illustrates her unease with the didactic tenets that she (overtly) promoted ... -
Memory and Displacement in Historical Fiction for Children about the Second World War, 2005?2021
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis examines the representation of memory and displacement in Anglophone historical fiction for children published between 2005 and 2021. It argues that memory is a significant aspect of how these texts ask the ... -
Modernism Processing Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lawrence, Nin, Joyce
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)This dissertation s focus is grounded in literary modernism s engagement with psychoanalytic theory and its therapeutic applications in the early 20th century. It examines how the ubiquity of Freud s theories at that time ... -
More instructive than any sermon I know' : the eighteenth-century novel and the secularisation of ethics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis argues that there is a connection between the secularisation of ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the rise to moral legitimacy and literary respectability of prose fiction from the ... -
More than meets the eye : truth in the eighteenth-century novel
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)In the eighteenth century it was commonly believed that Britain was experiencing a servant crisis. In consequence of the changing nature of the master-servant relationship which was shifting from a patriarchal style to ... -
Multi city : contemporary literary chronotopes of London
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)The general subject of this study is the representation of London in contemporary British literature. In particular, it asks whether literary chronotopes of London participate in the emergence of a dialogic city. In order ... -
Music in the glen : traveller culture and song
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis explores the cultural significance of music to Travellers, as described in their own words. By examining the songs included in Traveller memoirs, it aims to reflect cultural practices and concerns which are ... -
Narcissism in the fiction of John Banville
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis concerns narcissism in the work of the novelist John Banville. By examining it as both a psychological characteristic of Banville’s narrators and as a defining quality of the narratives they create, it aims to ... -
Narrative authority and truth claims in late medieval and early modern accounts of travel to Jerusalem
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis explores continuity and change in the construction of authority and truth claims in accounts of travel to Jerusalem from 1432 to 1632. It takes as its main materials manuscript or printed narratives written ... -
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 ...
