Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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A biographical study of Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and his historical and cultural milieu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1987)Introduction: explains the nature of this biographical study of Southwell, how it differs from previous ones; the contributions it seeks to make; and the general lines along which the biographical narrative proceeds. It ... -
The protesting conscience : the role of women in the Irish novels of Kate O'Brien
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An imagined Irish girlhood : representations of female identity formation and development in the novels of Kate O'Brien, Maura Laverty, and Edna O'Brien
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Reconstructing name : Lady Gregory's tragic Irish heroine
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1999)This thesis discusses the development of historian, folklorist and dramatist Lady Gregory's dramatic technique in regard to her Folk-History plays, Kincora I and II, Dervorgilla, and Grania. The focus of the thesis is on ... -
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. -
Political visions : George Russell, 1913-1930
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)George Russell, poet and author, was a contemporary of W. B. Yeats and a figure central to the Irish Literary Revival. My thesis concentrates on his editorship of two journals, the Irish Homestead and the Irish Statesman, ... -
Orientations: the positions and aesthetics of contemporary migrant fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)Touching on the work of David Dabydeen, Caryl Phillips, Fred D’Aguiar, Jamaica Kincaid, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi I will examine, in this thesis, the political, aesthetic and historical orientation ... -
A ryght hooly Virgin : an edition of Harley MS 630 lives of female saints and Saint Alban
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea (LgA) is one of the most influential books to come from the Middle Ages. It was originally written in Latin in about 1260 but was translated into many European vernaculars. It is a measure ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Battling with the body : physical and allegorical violence in the English morality plays
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)Battling with the Body: Physical and Allegorical Violence in the English Morality Plays' investigates ways in which medieval allegory finds corporeal expression in the violence of the late medieval stage. Using the ... -
Randall Jarrell, canonicity, multiplicity, travesty : the apocalyptic margins of the still, human center
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)The thesis finds that Randall Jarrell's writing fails to meet the expectations of the American canon and travesties the aesthetic conventions of American literary modernism. It is often kitsch or melodramatic, it can be ... -
The mind's blue eye : Berkeleian in the poetry of Richard Wilbur
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)One is struck, throughout the poetry of Richard Wilbur, by a tantalizing resemblance to the work of two close contemporaries: Howard Nemerov in the United States and Philip Larkin in Great Britain. Wilbur admired both, ... -
The politics of praise : influence and authority in John Berryman's poetry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This thesis is a reappraisal of John Berryman’s achievement that stresses his poetry’s critical agency over and against the prevailing tendency to describe it in narrow confessional terms. Questioning the received view of ... -
Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds and the construction of an alternative heroic canon : an intertextual analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The title "At Swim-Two-Birds and the Construction of an Alternative Heroic Canon" refers to O'Brien's intertextual re-reading of traditional Irish texts (early, middle and modem Irish) providing a new image of a changing ... -
Walt Whitman & Edward Dowden : 1869-1886
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This literary history provides an extensive examination of Walt Whitman's reception in Ireland in the 1870s and 1880s, at a time when he was broadly vilified for poor artistry and obscenity in America and Europe. It reveals ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
I carpenter a space for the thing I am given : influence and the consciousness of space in Emily Dickenson, H. D. and Sylvia Plath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The introduction indicates the context from which my examination of the continuities between Emily Dickinson, H.D., and Sylvia Plath arose; it does so by stating the principal areas of difference between this thesis and ... -
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 ...