This thesis was born of two assumptions about Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The first was that the rejection of poetry in the Parson's Prologue and Tale and the Retractions was in no sense ironic, but rather the expression, ...

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, ...

Memory has become a focal point of research across several disciplines, including Irish studies. What remains unacknowledged, however, are the roots of memory's ascendancy in the worldwide engagement with the victims of ...

[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 ...

James Scanlon The Great Clock Tower: Time and Narrative in the Late Works of W.B. Yeats This dissertation is a study of time and narrative in the late works of W.B. Yeats. I argue that, in the early twentieth century, the ...

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) began his career as a writer in London in 1757 and laboured as an anonymous hack until he leaped into literary stardom with the publication of his first, major poem, The Traveller (1764). His ...

This dissertation utilises a hauntological understanding of domestic space in order to examine spectral presences in the fiction of three contemporary women writers, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, and Anne Enright, focusing ...

Since his heyday in the nineteenth century Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852) has often been considered Ireland’s national poet, principally because of his Irish Melodies (ten numbers, 1808 - 34). However, from the mid-1820s on, ...

This thesis will examine how speech can be used or abused once disembedded from the Judaeo/Christian ontological framework which normally sustained and validated it. Chapter one looks at speech being used to express, ...