Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "American Literature"
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The cultural politics of William Carlos William's poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis offers a political reading of William Carlos Williams's poetry. Grounding its analysis in the work of a range of authors and theorists, as well as his own biography and writings, it approaches Williams's poems ... -
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 ... -
`There's A Terrible Difference': Bodies of Knowledge in Shirley Jackson's America
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis explores the interaction of bodies and minds in the work of American author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) through the investigation of Jackson's historical contexts. I frame my exploration on the work of Jackson's ...
