Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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The Look : ethics and ontology in Herman Melville's The Piazza, Bartleby, the Scrivener, and Benito Cereno
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis proposes to answer to the question of the Other and the Other as question in Herman Melville's The Piazza (January and February 1856), Bartleby, the Scrivener; a Story of Wall Street (November and December 1853) ... -
Textual economies : the performative self in the writings of John Newton, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis brings together the writings of John Newton, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince, three figures from both sides of the black/white, slave/slaver, male/female divides who were prominent in the history of British ... -
Writing and reading history : a study of Ezra Pound's Malatesta, Jefferson and Adams Cantos
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis examines Pound's claim that The Cantos are "a poem including history" (Pound's definition of an epic). The principal focus is on the three sequences usually referred to as the Malatesta Cantos (VIII-XI), the ... -
"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, ... -
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 ... -
Geoffrey Chaucer and the culture of dissent : the Wycliffite context and subcontext of the Parson's Tale
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)Geoffrey Chaucer's Parson's Tale is comparatively neglected by the critics who, as this thesis will demonstrate, perceive it to be an inept attempt at the closure of an otherwise masterful work. Its apparent opacity, ... -
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 ... -
Sacerdos Parochialis edited from British Library MS Burney 356 & Exornatorium Curatorum edited from Cambridge Corpus Christi Sp.335.2
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis is in two parts. Each part contains a critical edition of a late Middle English manual of religious instruction. The first edition is Sacerdos Parochialis and is found in eleven extant manuscripts from the ... -
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 ... -
Wallace Stevens in creative conversation : the occasion of long-considered sense
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis contends that Stevens is engaged in creative conversation. His poems generate conversations between each other and with earher poets. For Stevens is in conversation with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge ... -
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 ... -
The imagination of urban chaos : representations of terrorism in late Victorian and modernist literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)Modern terrorism emerged in the 1880s and 1890s, when outbreaks of apparently sporadic violence by nihilists, Irish republicans and anarchists changed the way in which the public viewed the issue of political subversion. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Towards an aesthetics of blindness : an interdisciplinary response to Synge, Yeats and Friel
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Unholy images of corruption : the beast-man in the nineteenth-century novel
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This is not a thesis about beasts. Nor is it a thesis about men. It is, rather, a thesis about that indefinable and inhospitable distance that exists between the two, represented in popular fiction by the image of the ... -
Unexpected landscapes : literature and revolution in modern Ireland and Spain - 1913-39
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)In this study I examine the inter-relationship between literature and revolution in modern Ireland and Spain. I concentrate on the period 1913 to 1923 in regard to Irish affairs, a decade that saw the re-emergence of the ... -
Joyce's Mandala
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)The term "mandala" is a Sanskrit word which can be translated as meaning "sacred circle". The "circle" in this instance typically encloses a highly structured icon which represents a microcosm of the universe and/or ... -
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. ... -
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 ...
