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T. H. White: A Critical Biography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis is a critical biography of the author T. H. White. My purpose is to define the influences on his work throughout his life and set him in the historical and cultural context of the period from the 1930s through ... -
Teaching Literary Responses to the Black Death During the COVID 19 Pandemic
(2020)In this paper, I provide a case study about the experience of teaching literary responses to the Black Death online during the recent closure of universities in Ireland. I outline the rationale for teaching the module, ... -
<teiPublisher>: Bridging the Gap Between a Simple Set of Structured Documents and a Functional Digital Library
(2004)Digital Libraries are complex systems that take a long time to create and tailor to specific requirements [1]. Their implementation requires special- ized computer skills, which are not usually found within humanities ... -
Textual economies : the performative self in the writings of John Newton, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis brings together the writings of John Newton, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince, three figures from both sides of the black/white, slave/slaver, male/female divides who were prominent in the history of British ... -
That awful secret of the wood' : the forest and the EcoGothic
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)When we imagine the forest, we tend towards extremes. It is commonly read as a binary space: as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’. When it is ‘good’, it is a remedial setting of wonder and enchantment; when it is ‘bad’, it is a ... -
That was a good king! : Beowulf and its prologue
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The walking text : narrativised identities in the work of Philip Roth
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The introduction to this thesis makes clear the need for a reconsideration of Roth's representation of self-identity through an examination of how selfhood and self identity are represented and experienced through narrative. ... -
The church without the church : desert orthodoxy in Flannery O'Connor's Dear Old Dirty Southland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2011)In the nearly fifty years since her death, the critical study of the life and work of Mary Flannery O'Connor has been conventionally delimited to two critical parameters: the greater "South" and the Church of Rome. My ... -
The condition of ascent: temperament, perception and transcendence in the later poetry of Wallace Stevens
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)‘Poetry’, Wallace Stevens said, 'is the expression of the experience of poetry' (CPP904). This thesis explores the connection in Stevens’ writing between ‘the experience of poetry’ and the poetic temperament. Stevens viewed ... -
The evolution of a Lollard book of instruction : a critical edition of material from Trinity College Dublin MS 245
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This is a critical edition of material from Trinity College Dublin MS 245, an early fifteenth-century Lollard instructional anthology. This thesis will be a case study, the aim of which is to reassess the nature of such ... -
The female uncanny? : A historicised reading of the uncanny fiction of Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson & Joyce Carol Oates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This study evaluates whether it is appropriate to consider the work of three women writers of uncanny fiction as evidence of a distinctive female sub-genre in the uncanny. A literature review of certain second-wave feminist ... -
The forgotten Piers Plowman : early Tudor Plowman texts
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)Methods: This thesis combines textual analysis with research into the historical, religious and literary context of early Tudor Ploughman texts, looking back to the late fourteenth century ploughman literature. In chapter ... -
The grammar of greatness' : self, community, and inspiration in Oliver St. John Gogarty
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The first chapter of this thesis is introductory, and proposes a reading of Oliver Gogarty as a self-depicting writer, one who usually employs the form of memoir. It argues that Gogarty does not demonstrate the confessionality ... -
The hermeneutics of crisis : evangelicals, apocalypse and conflict in Northern Ireland Troubles
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)Apocalyptic eschatology sets us questions that lead us into the heart of the relationship between ideas and their expression in culture. The significance of apocalyptic eschatology becomes apparent upon a brief consideration ... -
The Image of Both Churches' : the uses of convention in Tudor polemical literature, 1528-1563
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis offers a literary analysis of mid-Tudor polemics, texts chiefly valued by historians in the field of Reformation studies. It focuses on the metaphors and imagery which polemicists use to put across their ... -
The imagination of urban chaos : representations of terrorism in late Victorian and modernist literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)Modern terrorism emerged in the 1880s and 1890s, when outbreaks of apparently sporadic violence by nihilists, Irish republicans and anarchists changed the way in which the public viewed the issue of political subversion. ... -
The Irish landscape in Somerville and Ross's fiction and illustrations, 1890-1915
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)As inheritors of an Anglo-Irish Protestant tradition who wrote in the midst of a vibrant consumer culture of the fin-de-siecle, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross developed their satirical fictions to reflect central ambiguities ... -
The ironic conscience : a study of the first extended phase of Derek Mahon's poetry - from Night-Crossing (1968) to Antarctica (1985)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis reappraises the first extended phase of Mahon’s early poetry, from Night- Crossing (1968) to Antarctica (1985), in the light of the concept of the ironic conscience. It begins by outlining an initial definition ... -
The Look : ethics and ontology in Herman Melville's The Piazza, Bartleby, the Scrivener, and Benito Cereno
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis proposes to answer to the question of the Other and the Other as question in Herman Melville's The Piazza (January and February 1856), Bartleby, the Scrivener; a Story of Wall Street (November and December 1853) ...