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James Joyce's Philosophical Formation: A Secularisation of Being
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis draws on radical philology, which focuses on the analysis of textual sources, to examine the exogenesis of James Joyce's early aesthetics, which is to say its development as a result of inter-textual echoes and ... -
James Joyce, music and memory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis, James Joyce, Music and Memory, explores the connection between music and Irish cultural memory in Joyce’s works from Chamber Music to the “pure music” of Finnegans Wake. Overall, it shows that Joyce’s ongoing ... -
John Donne and religious authority in the reformed English church
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis examines the place of religious authority in the thought of John Donne. The methodology employed is a historically contextualised close reading of Donne's works, with particular focus on the sermons. This reading ... -
Joyce's Mandala
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)The term "mandala" is a Sanskrit word which can be translated as meaning "sacred circle". The "circle" in this instance typically encloses a highly structured icon which represents a microcosm of the universe and/or ... -
Laying in the Dark: The Literary Night in Nineteenth-Century American Prose
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)This thesis examines nineteenth-century American prose via the lens of night studies, to demonstrate how the literary night was used to construct and challenge issues of gender and race in the United States. It focuses ... -
The Legends of the Lady: Finding Truth Through Transformation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis examines the concepts and roles of disability, disfigurement, sovereignty, and ageism in medieval Irish and English Loathly Lady texts, as well as select texts that contain disabled and disfigured characters. ... -
Literary exhortations : the early fiction of George A. Birmingham
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis will demonstrate the important cultural contribution of the early fiction of the Irish writer George A. Birmingham (1865 - 1950). Born in Belfast on the eve of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and ... -
Lolita and the Mythologies of Femininity
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Looking at Novels: Typography, Punctuation, & Spelling in Some Contemporary Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)Looking at Novels: Typography, Punctuation, & Spelling in Some Contemporary Fiction by Francis Leahy Abstract This is a study of the visual appearance of some contemporary novels. The thesis uses an interdisciplinary ... -
Louis MacNeice : radio, poetry and the aural imagination
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The aim of this thesis is to give serious consideration to the relatively neglected radio dramas and features of Louis MacNeice, showing how they were an imaginative and innovative development of what was at the time an ... -
Louis MacNeice and the Writing of the Mind
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This thesis explores the influence of psychology and philosophy of mind on the writing of Louis MacNeice. This challenges current thinking on MacNeice s treatment of selfhood and consciousness, which has previously been ... -
Maculate conceptions : Irish film and drama of the 1930s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)In the 1930s Ireland grasped the opportunity to define itself as a modern free state and the decade is thus one of the most dynamic in Ireland’s history since Independence. Within the space of ten years, Fianna Fail came ... -
Managing Uncertainty in the Humanities: Digital and Analogue Approaches
(ACM, 2018)This paper takes a high-level view of both the sources and status of uncertainty in humanities research and the attributes a digital system would ideally have. It draws upon both the experience of a number of digital ... -
'Manhattan weighed on his eyelid' : reading Ted Hughes in the context of four American writers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)The introduction to this thesis documents and establishes Ted Hughes' growing interest in American writing while at Cambridge and suggests that Hughes' engagement with American writing from this point in his career onwards ... -
Maria Edgeworth : a sense of place
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)The life of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was characterised by one event which was to have a lasting influence on her self-determination as a person and a writer. This event was her move in 1782 to Edgeworthstown, a small ... -
Maria Edgeworth and romance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This dissertation concentrates upon an important tension manifest across Edgeworth’s prolific writings, and it contends that this tension finally illustrates her unease with the didactic tenets that she (overtly) promoted ... -
Memory and Displacement in Historical Fiction for Children about the Second World War, 2005?2021
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis examines the representation of memory and displacement in Anglophone historical fiction for children published between 2005 and 2021. It argues that memory is a significant aspect of how these texts ask the ... -
Modernism Processing Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lawrence, Nin, Joyce
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)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 ... -
'Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: the making of a "national reader"'
(Rodopi, 2014)This paper examines ‘national reading’ in nineteenth-century Ireland in relation to concepts of Irish modernity. Through William St Clair’s framework of the ‘reading nation’, I assess historical descriptions of reading ... -
More instructive than any sermon I know' : the eighteenth-century novel and the secularisation of ethics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis argues that there is a connection between the secularisation of ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the rise to moral legitimacy and literary respectability of prose fiction from the ...
