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"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 ... -
Reconstructing name : Lady Gregory's tragic Irish heroine
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1999)This thesis discusses the development of historian, folklorist and dramatist Lady Gregory's dramatic technique in regard to her Folk-History plays, Kincora I and II, Dervorgilla, and Grania. The focus of the thesis is on ... -
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Review of The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790 by Joe Lines
(2022)There was a time when Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent, first published in 1800, was considered the “first truly Irish novel.” Back in 1988, when the critic James Cahalan made this claim, the words “first,” “Irish,” ... -
Rhythm and Modernity: The Concept of Dynamic Unity in Literature of the Early 20 th Century Metropolis
This dissertation explores the way in which a number of key modernist writers, including Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, and the group of artists commonly known as ‘the Rhythmists,’ used rhythm as a framework for both ... -
Sacerdos Parochialis edited from British Library MS Burney 356 & Exornatorium Curatorum edited from Cambridge Corpus Christi Sp.335.2
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis is in two parts. Each part contains a critical edition of a late Middle English manual of religious instruction. The first edition is Sacerdos Parochialis and is found in eleven extant manuscripts from the ... -
Saints and Celibates : Protestant Identity in the Irish Novels of William Trevor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1999)This thesis focuses purely on Protestant identity in three Irish novels by William Trevor, namely: Fools of Fortune, The Silence in the Garden and Reading Turgenev.