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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 ... -
Daniel Defoe and the representation of personal identity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores Daniel Defoe's treatment of the concept of personal identity as a literary construction and as a social fiction. An active contributor to the burgeoning print market of early eighteenthcentury England, ... -
Darby O'Gill and the construction of Irish identity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis investigates the role of the term ?Darby O?Gill? in the modern Irish consciousness as a signifier of a pejorative construction of Irish identity and the extent to which it is justified when all cultural ... -
Data, Metadata, Narrative. Barriers to the Reuse of Cultural Sources.?
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Departures : the Abbey Theatre on international stages 1975-2005
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis and the included production history of Abbey Theatre tours form part of a broader project under the aegis of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora, The Internationalisation of Irish Drama, 1975-2005. This project ... -
Destabilizing Shakespeare : adaptations for children, 1807-2007
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Determining Value for Digital Humanities Tools: Report on a Survey of Tool Developers
(2010)While the purpose and direction of tools and tool development for the Digital Humanities have been debated in various forums, the value of tool development as a scholarly activity has seen little discussion. As a way of ... -
Digital Humanities: Centres and Peripheries
(2012)This paper explores a history of humanities computing over the past decade as embodied in or represented by A Companion to Digital Humanities