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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 -
Digital Representation and the Hyper Real
(2010)This article explores mimesis from two distinct but not unrelated aspects of digital technology. The first part explores the relationship between digital surrogates and their analogue counterparts; how familiar terms like ... -
Dion Boucicault's Irish melodramas : national identity, politics and the Press
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis undertakes a detailed study of the reception of Dion Boucicault’s Irish plays in the New York-London-Dublin theatre triangle which the playwright inhabited. The plays are The Colleen Bawn (1860); Arrah-na-Pogue ... -
Displaced masculinity : men, women and gender disorientation in contemporary Scottish fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)The subject of this thesis is the representation of gender in Scottish fiction since 1980. In writing of this period the stereotype of the Scottish 'hardman' gives way to portraits of uncertain and ineffectual male characters. ... -
Do you know who I am? : contextualising Shirley Jackson
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis attempts to broaden the current critical approach towards Shirley Jackson by discussing her work within the cultural, social, literary and historical contexts of America during the 1950s. This is the first time ... -
The Domestic Noir Fiction of Gillian Flynn
This dissertation's focus is grounded in literary modernism's engagement with psychoanalytic theory and its therapeutic applications in the early 20th century. It examines how the ubiquity of Freud s theories at that time ... -
Echoes traveling off from the center : contemporary poetic engagements with the poetry of Sylvia Plath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)The introduction of the thesis makes clear the vital need for this study and explains how its methodology privileges poetic practice rather than critical narratives as it centres on close readings of a range of poems by ... -
Edith
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This project contains two elements, one creative and the other critical. The creative component is a novel in the voice of Edith Somerville as she attempts to convince herself, and others, that the Somerville and Ross ... -
Electronic Editing
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Envoy: A Review of Literature and Art and Post-War Irish Culture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis examines the Irish literary and visual art magazine Envoy: A Review of Literature and Art (1949-1951). It establishes the magazine as a key post-war site of transnational aspiration and activity at the beginning ... -
Escaping her biography : Maeve Brennan's 'Nomadic Consciousness'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)The introduction of the thesis makes clear the vital need for this study and explains how its methodology privileges theoretical positions over biographical narratives as it centres on close readings of some of Brennan's ... -
Estrange conflict : fragments of the Irish Troubles in the science fiction of Bob Shaw and James White
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)A study of the work of the Belfast science fiction authors Bob Shaw and James White, two hitherto ignored authors in Irish Studies. Much written about Shaw and White has originated from British and American science fiction ... -
Europe is the greatest thing in North America : Delmore Schwartz's 'International Consciousness'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)My introduction considers the way in which Schwartz interprets the American Dream in a seminal essay about Ernest Hemingway, suggesting this as a framework within which to consider Schwartz’s work in general. I then offer ...