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  "The soul has ears": Music and movement in the poetry of John Berryman 

  COBAIN, EVE CLAIRE (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2017)

  "The soul has ears": Music and Movement in the Poetry of John Berryman Berryman’s musical interest is consistently remarked on by readers of his work, but remains vastly understudied, though it touches almost every ...
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  'This I Believe' : meaningful belief and uncertainty in the novels of Walker Percy 

  Wilson, Robert Cameron (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)

  This thesis analyses how the American novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990) anatomizes belief in his six novels and one work of non-fiction satire, Lost in the Cosmos (1983). In critical studies of Percy’s fiction, no study ...
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  A Victorian dissenter : Robert Govett and the doctrine of Millennial Reward 

  Seip, David E. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)

  This thesis centers on Robert Govett (1813-1901), an English dissenting clergyman and author who wrote as a scholar of biblical prophecy, primarily on the subject of the “exclusion” of believers in the Millennial Kingdom, ...
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  Imaginary bodies : legal fictions and rhetorical tropes in early modern English 

  Sappington, Anne (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)

  This thesis is an investigation of the development and significance of the early modem English use of the term “body politic”, both as a rhetorical trope and as a legal term of art. Unlike previous scholarly work on the ...
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  Shifting his weight from foot to foot : between autobiography and autofiction in the poetry of Paul Muldoon 

  Tauvry, Alexandra (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, ...

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