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Ben Jonson's English Grammar
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"Between childhood and night" – The role of literature and emotion in the writing of Conor Cruise O'Brien.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This dissertation focuses on a number of major influences on Conor Cruise O'Brien's writing. It consequently explores how various pressures — literary, emotional and political — shaped the imaginary of this major figure ... -
"Beyond the Veil": The Antarctic Gothic Fictions of Poe, Verne, Leahy, Lovecraft, and Campbell
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)The Antarctic has frequently been a location for Gothic narratives. Ever since Captain Cook declared that it was better for mankind not to know anything about the mysterious land which lay on the other side of the frozen ... -
Birds bred in cages : Katherine Mansfield and the anxiety of authority
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)This thesis accounts for the growing professionalisation of Katherine Mansfield as a writer between the years of 1910 and 1922, and addresses the ways in which the publication contexts in which her writing first appeared ... -
Black Gay Male Identity in the African Diaspora
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This study seeks to fill this gap. By interrogating new or overlooked characterizations of positive black gay male identity, it seeks to address theorizations of black identity as it relates to black gay male identity. -
Blood, thunder and sudden death : the science and fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)In a letter to his editor in 1919, American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wondered whether he was "going to be known as Edgar Rice Burroughs the author or Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan of the Apes" (Letter ... -
Brian O'Nolan and Irish cultural debate, 1931-1945
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This thesis is a historical study of Brian O'Nolan's fiction and journalism which encompasses the early period of his career, from his earliest newspaper publications in 1931 to the first months of the uncensored, post-war ... -
Brian O'Nolan's Systems of Mediation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis focuses on the significance of mediation in Brian O?Nolan?s body of work. The term `mediation' is used within the context of recent media theory such as that of Friedrich Kittler, and it refers to the way that ... -
The Calendar and the Scop: Beowulf as an Example of Anglo-Saxon Discourses on Time
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)In this thesis, I analyse Beowulf as a self-reflexive poem on time based on representations of time in the Anglo-Saxon period. The question of time transcends the long-standing issue of the dialectic relationship between ... -
CENDARI s Grand Challenges: Building, Contextualising and Sustaining a New Knowledge Infrastructure.
(2013)In its widest sense, infrastructure allows us as finite individuals to achieve beyond our individual capacity to know, to do, to see. But even within the more narrow context of research infrastructures, broad and diverse ... -
The CENDARI White Book of Archives
(2016)Over the course of its four year project timeline, the CENDARI project has collected archival descriptions and metadata in various formats from a broad range of cultural heritage institutions. These data were drawn together ... -
Civility, patriotism and performance: Cato and the Irish history play
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Closed Spaces: Beckett and Confinement
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2017)This thesis is the first sustained study of Samuel Beckett?s career-long engagement with confinement, examining both his use of institutions of coercive confinement as well as the function of the closed spaces of his later ... -
Completing the union : Charles Robert Maturin and the (ir)reconciliations of romantic national fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis analyses the novels of Charles Robert Maturin in order to highlight the author’s engagement with contemporary literary forms, including the Gothic, the national tale, and the historical novel. By first offering ... -
Consider the editor : textual process in the fiction of Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis examines the contribution of Gordon Lish and Michael Pietsch to key works of Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace, respectively. The Prologue situates the two authors in a historical framework, considering ... -
The considerations of the curious: natural philosophy in early modern Dublin
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis offers a re-evaluation of the activities and mindset of a community of natural philosophers who described themselves as curious: the members of the Dublin Philosophical Society (1683–1709) (DPS) and their circle ... -
The Country and the City in the Irish Novel, 1922-51
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis investigates the representation of the country and the city in the Irish novel north and south after partition. The political success of both Irish nationalism and Ulster unionism were partly shaped by a popular ... -
Creation and sub-creation : divine and human authorship in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)J.R.R. Tolkien spent the greater part of his adult life constructing an imaginary world; its cosmology, history, legends, and languages. He described this process as 'sub-creation', a definition embodying the connection ... -
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 ... -
Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged ...
