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"Welcome to the Good Life!" Neoliberalism(s) and Contemporary Irish Women's Short Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis examines the ways in which neoliberalism as a pervasive economic, political, and cultural discourse is represented, recreated, and subverted in contemporary short fiction by Claire Keegan, Nicole Flattery, Lucy ... -
That awful secret of the wood' : the forest and the EcoGothic
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)When we imagine the forest, we tend towards extremes. It is commonly read as a binary space: as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’. When it is ‘good’, it is a remedial setting of wonder and enchantment; when it is ‘bad’, it is a ... -
Apologising for the inconvenience : defamiliarisation and displacement in landscapes in The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)This thesis sought to examine worldbuilding in science fiction, and to establish whether a single driving force, named a strange attractor could be identified in an author's constructed secondary world. A theory of ... -
`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 ... -
"Say it simply [...] say it simplier" : Samuel Beckett and Gertrude Stein's aesthetics of writing worser
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)While critics have long acknowledged the critical importance of Samuel Beckett's expressed desire in the Axel Kaun letter, dated July 9 1937, to tear at language as an indication of his changing aesthetics, they have tended ...