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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 ... -
Germany, Ireland and the Second World War in the works of Christabel Bielenberg, Francis Stuart and Hugo Hamilton
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)Memory has become a focal point of research across several disciplines, including Irish studies. What remains unacknowledged, however, are the roots of memory's ascendancy in the worldwide engagement with the victims of ... -
Giving those angry ghosts their due : Louis McNeice's intertextual dialogue with W. B. Yeats
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis examines the nature and significance of Louis MacNeice’s engagement with W.B. Yeats. Throughout the 1930s, and the early years of the 1940s, MacNeice sought to evaluate Yeats’s legacy. His preoccupation with ... -
Golden apples of the monkey house : a post-Jungian interpretation of myth in the short stories of Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)[exerpt from page 8] This dissertation is cast with hope of drawing scholarly attention to these writers' short fiction [Vonnegut and Bradbury], arguing in the affirmative that there is plenty to be found in these critically ... -
Good enough to eat : a study of cannibalism in literature and film in the twentieth century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis is an examination of the cannibal figure in 19th and 20th century literature and film. The cannibal transgresses boundaries of normality and morality and is thus considered Other. As a transgressor of boundaries, ... -
The Great Clock Tower: Time and Narrative in the Late Works of W.B. Yeats
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)James Scanlon The Great Clock Tower: Time and Narrative in the Late Works of W.B. Yeats This dissertation is a study of time and narrative in the late works of W.B. Yeats. I argue that, in the early twentieth century, the ... -
Grief, Emotional Communities and Anglo-French Rivalry in Late-Medieval English and French Literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This thesis provides the first extended study of the representation of grief in late-medieval English and French literature. It examines a range of medieval texts, including the Pearl-poem, Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the ... -
The Grounded Patriot: Oliver Goldsmith as Historical Compiler
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) began his career as a writer in London in 1757 and laboured as an anonymous hack until he leaped into literary stardom with the publication of his first, major poem, The Traveller (1764). His ... -
Harry Potter and the Invisible Hand: The Notion of Inevitable Inequality, and 'Niceness' as Moral Action in J.K. Rowling's Neoliberal Fantasy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)My thesis explores contemporary children's fantasy literature, and the changing popular perceptions of fundamental moral concepts disseminated for young readerships in such texts. I have chosen as my primary text of survey ... -
Harry Potter and the Unconscious Dimension
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)In this thesis I explore the extent to which an unconscious response on the part of the reader may contribute to the extraordinary popularity among both children adults of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997—2007). ... -
Hauntologies of Domestic Space in Contemporary Women's Writing, 1985-2015: Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, and Anne Enright.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)This dissertation utilises a hauntological understanding of domestic space in order to examine spectral presences in the fiction of three contemporary women writers, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, and Anne Enright, focusing ...