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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 ... -
'European Elephants in the Room (are they the ones with the bigger or smaller ears?)
(Rice University Press, 2010)On 4 August 1914 Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, reportedly stood in front of his office window looking out onto the dawn of St James Park as the street lamps were being extinguished and famously declared: ... -
'Exogamous Brides' : representations of inter-faith relationships in Irish fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This study offers a comprehensive assessment of how a broad range of Irish novelists depicted mixed marriages or inter-faith relationships from the 1860s to the 1960s, and argues that heterogeneous depictions of these ... -
Explorations of "an alien past": Identity, Gender, and Belonging in the Short Fiction of Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, and Margaret Atwood
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)The short fiction of Canadian writers Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, and Margaret Atwood highlights the continued and evolving complexity of national identity and gender inequality issues, in Canada and transnationally. These ... -
Fairies in Early Modern English Drama: Fictionality and Theatrical Landscapes, 1575-1615
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)In 1575, the fairy queen appeared as a character in the entertainments presented to Queen Elizabeth I at Woodstock in what appears to be the first instance of a fairy character scripted into an English dramatic performance. ... -
False things and things unable to be true: representation and fraud in Chaucer
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis was born of two assumptions about Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The first was that the rejection of poetry in the Parson's Prologue and Tale and the Retractions was in no sense ironic, but rather the expression, ... -
Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds and the construction of an alternative heroic canon : an intertextual analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The title "At Swim-Two-Birds and the Construction of an Alternative Heroic Canon" refers to O'Brien's intertextual re-reading of traditional Irish texts (early, middle and modem Irish) providing a new image of a changing ... -
Folklore and the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde
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Food and Power in Roald Dahl's Children's Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2017)This thesis examines the representation of food and power in Roald Dahl's children's fiction written between the years 1961 and 1990. This thesis explores how the relationship between food and power in Dahl's biographical ... -
"'Foul, strange and unnatural': Poison as a murder weapon in English Renaissance drama"
(2020)Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonorable and unmanly, poison was ... -
Friel and his 'Sisters'
(2010)This essay, occasioned by a revival of Brian Friel?s version of Chekhov?s Three Sisters at the Abbey Theatre in 2008, considers the circumstances surrounding its first production by the Field Day Theatre Company in 1981, ... -
From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)In the opening decades of the twentieth century a close connection was forged between Ireland and British East Africa (or the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya as it became in 1920) by three of the children of the fourth ... -
Geoffrey Chaucer and the culture of dissent : the Wycliffite context and subcontext of the Parson's Tale
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)Geoffrey Chaucer's Parson's Tale is comparatively neglected by the critics who, as this thesis will demonstrate, perceive it to be an inept attempt at the closure of an otherwise masterful work. Its apparent opacity, ... -
George Reavey (1907-1976) : The endless chain, a literary biography
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)George Reavey (1907-1976) was an experimental poet, an enterprising publisher and literary agent and an esteemed critic and translator of Russian literature. His literary beginnings can be traced back to Cambridge, where ...