Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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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. -
Shifting his weight from foot to foot : between autobiography and autofiction in the poetry of Paul Muldoon
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)In his review of Maggot (2010), published in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Eder writes that ‘Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Proteus to readers who try to pin him down’ (n. pag.). Muldoon’s poetic persona is, ... -
That was a good king! : Beowulf and its prologue
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The grammar of greatness' : self, community, and inspiration in Oliver St. John Gogarty
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The first chapter of this thesis is introductory, and proposes a reading of Oliver Gogarty as a self-depicting writer, one who usually employs the form of memoir. It argues that Gogarty does not demonstrate the confessionality ... -
The hermeneutics of crisis : evangelicals, apocalypse and conflict in Northern Ireland Troubles
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)Apocalyptic eschatology sets us questions that lead us into the heart of the relationship between ideas and their expression in culture. The significance of apocalyptic eschatology becomes apparent upon a brief consideration ... -
The Image of Both Churches' : the uses of convention in Tudor polemical literature, 1528-1563
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis offers a literary analysis of mid-Tudor polemics, texts chiefly valued by historians in the field of Reformation studies. It focuses on the metaphors and imagery which polemicists use to put across their ... -
The Irish landscape in Somerville and Ross's fiction and illustrations, 1890-1915
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)As inheritors of an Anglo-Irish Protestant tradition who wrote in the midst of a vibrant consumer culture of the fin-de-siecle, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross developed their satirical fictions to reflect central ambiguities ... -
The profane poetic of the Canterbury Tales
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)The low standing of medieval aesthetics and literary theory is looking increasingly undeserved. The last three decades have been described by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson as a 'golden age' for the 'study of medieval ... -
The protesting conscience : the role of women in the Irish novels of Kate O'Brien
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The revolution in action : servants in British fictions of the 1790s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)Taking its title from Napoleon's famous description of Figaro as "the Revolution in action", the following thesis explores the depiction of servants in British fictions of the 1790s, and argues that both radical and ... -
The sea of disappointment : Thomas Kinsella's pursuit of the real
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This study provides an extensive examination of the work of Thomas Kinsella by addressing the fundamental question of form which his poetry presents. There are two phases in Kinsella’s writing: one contains poems written ... -
The war is in words and the wood is the world : an ecocritical reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)"The war is in worlds and the wood is the world': An Ecocritical Reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake'' is the first work to attempt a comprehensive ecocritical reading of any of James Joyce's texts. This thesis approaches ... -
They said she was mad' : insanity in the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This thesis contextualises the work of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu in nineteenth-century debates on insanity. Le Fanu lived at a time when psychiatry was establishing itself as a new branch of medicine, and its advances, ... -
To Arms! : colonial authors and the fiction of invasion 1890-1914
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)In 1909 P. G. Wodehouse penned a comic novella The Swoop! which saw Britain saved from the simultaneous invasion of nine foreign armies by a boy scout named Clarence Chugwater. Wodehouse’s ludicrous plot, which featured ... -
Tradition and ephemerality : suburban voices in Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This thesis is a work of literary critique. It attempts to explore the significance of the concepts of tradition and ephemerality within the work of Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle. This is done not only on the level of ... -
Unsettling belongings : settler colonialism in the selected works of Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This thesis presents a comparative reading of place in selected works by Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen in the context of settler colonialism. In arguing that Anglo- Irish and Creole identities were formed out of the dynamics ... -
Visions of Paradise : the legacy of history of encounter in twentieth-century Caribbean writing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)This thesis examines the relationship between the work of three twentieth-century Caribbean writers; V. S. Naipaul, Wilson Harris and Derek Walcott, and the legacy of Renaissance accounts of voyages of discovery to the ...