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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. -
Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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"Say it simply [...] say it simplier" : Samuel Beckett and Gertrude Stein's aesthetics of writing worser
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)While critics have long acknowledged the critical importance of Samuel Beckett's expressed desire in the Axel Kaun letter, dated July 9 1937, to tear at language as an indication of his changing aesthetics, they have tended ... -
Screaming for Champions
(2022)This short piece reflects on screaming and female rage in response to pregnancy and childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic. This piece reflects on my daughter's expert screaming and my own (wasted) efforts trying to pacify ... -
“She stimulates us to supply what is not there”: Expanding Jane Austen’s World Through Fandom
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis aims to explore Jane Austen?s lively afterlife in popular culture through an exploration of fanfiction inspired by her most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice (1813). The thesis combines analysis of online ... -
Shifting his weight from foot to foot : between autobiography and autofiction in the poetry of Paul Muldoon
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)In his review of Maggot (2010), published in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Eder writes that ‘Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Proteus to readers who try to pin him down’ (n. pag.). Muldoon’s poetic persona is, ... -
Soft Skills in Hard Places: the changing face of DH training in European research infrastructures
(2017)[Extract from the Introduction] Research Infrastructures are becoming an increasingly distinct presence in the landscape of the digital humanities, creating unique research ecosystems that interact with, but remain ... -
Some explanation of this hard, real life : the problem of evil in mid-Victorian literature and culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)[Exerpt from the final paragraph of the introduction, page 65] Likewise, the novels considered in the chapters that follow are not bound by a rationalist imperative, but articulate their responses to evil in creative and ... -
"Some Safe Way of Dying": A Literary Study of Suicide in 1940s Britain
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)The hitherto unimaginable challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath were, this thesis contends, mediated through a language and imaginative framework of suicide in British ... -
"The soul has ears": Music and movement in the poetry of John Berryman
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2017)"The soul has ears": Music and Movement in the Poetry of John Berryman Berryman’s musical interest is consistently remarked on by readers of his work, but remains vastly understudied, though it touches almost every ...