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On the Edge of Chaos: Space and Power in Maria Edgeworth's "The Grateful Negro" (1804)
(Cambridge Unversity Press, 2022)‘The Grateful Negro’ (1804) is one of Maria Edgeworth’s less well-known children’s stories. Set on a Jamaican plantation, it concerns the differing attitudes of two white plantation owners, Mr Edwards and Mr Jefferies, ... -
On the uses and disadvantages of history for Ireland : James Joyce and nationalist historiography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)Nationalism saw a tremendous rise in Ireland during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, culminating in the Easter Rising and the formation of the Irish Free State. James Joyce's reading and interpretation ... -
Open Minds and Open Learning in the 'Cosmopolitan' Internet
(2012)The promise of technology, in particular of the internet, was that access to information would become demography blind. But for all of the successes the global web of information has demonstrated to us, has it really ... -
Orientations: the positions and aesthetics of contemporary migrant fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)Touching on the work of David Dabydeen, Caryl Phillips, Fred D’Aguiar, Jamaica Kincaid, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi I will examine, in this thesis, the political, aesthetic and historical orientation ... -
Others had the making of me : the cultural construction of serial murder
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis examines the framing devices which are used to interpret serial murder and their role in shaping our understanding of this most disturbing subject. Each chapter considers a period of writing which, I have argued, ... -
'Our Modern Hope': An Analysis of Unorthodox Religion in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and Juan Ramón Jiménez
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)The theological modernist movement articulated many of the issues that literary modernism went on to develop, particularly in relation to religion and the individual s place within it. Theological modernism had a profound ... -
"Perilous movement" : deconstruction and the discourse of conflict
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis examines the relationship between the discourses of the university and the public press through an analysis of the work and career of Jacques Derrida. The conflictual nature of the reception of deconstruction, ... -
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
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Political visions : George Russell, 1913-1930
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)George Russell, poet and author, was a contemporary of W. B. Yeats and a figure central to the Irish Literary Revival. My thesis concentrates on his editorship of two journals, the Irish Homestead and the Irish Statesman, ... -
Politics and national identity in the works of Frances Burney
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis analyses the novels and plays of Frances Burney in order to highlight the author's engagement with political concerns of her time, including the concepts of national identity and sympathy. Groups who experienced ... -
Prompting prudence : early modern revenge drama and the memory-training tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis examines the methods by whieh revenge playwrights direct playgoer attention to significant moments in their plays. My contention is that many of the devices employed by these playwrights in their dramaturgical ... -
Proximate foreigners : England and its neighbors in the history plays of the 1590s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)The central claim of this thesis is that the correlation between the rise history play genre in the 1590s, concerns about national identity, and emerging disputes over expansion collided in the political/cultural views of ... -
Puritan responses to antinomianism in the context of reformed covenant theology: 1630-1696
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)This thesis analyzes the way in which six seventeenth-century puritans from both sides of the Atlantic responded to antinomians—those accused of rejecting divine law—and the methods these six puritans used in their responses. ... -
Queer be dragons: Mapping LGBT fantasy novels 1987-2000
(Trinity College Dublin, 2016)Fantasy, considered as a genre, is an ideal space to represent the queer, strange, and different in ways that attract both a readership of enjoyment and the academic critic. It should therefore be well-placed to include ... -
Randall Jarrell, canonicity, multiplicity, travesty : the apocalyptic margins of the still, human center
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)The thesis finds that Randall Jarrell's writing fails to meet the expectations of the American canon and travesties the aesthetic conventions of American literary modernism. It is often kitsch or melodramatic, it can be ... -
Reading Forests, Seeing Trees: Visual Poetry with Neurohumanities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)The new contexts of visual materiality engendered by the internet and digital age problematise traditional strategies of critically analysing experimental forms of poetry. By approaching poetry across history as a phenomenon ... -
Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities
(TARA, 2022)This report provides the findings from an inter-disciplinary project that sought to investigate and advance the potential of shared reading groups to promote purposeful and meaningful dialogue among Northern Ireland interface ...