School of English: Recent submissions
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"This is a Political Play": Making Coriolanus Relevant in Contemporary Iran
(2024)This article traces the performance history of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in Iran, focusing on the most recent production of the play directed by Mostafa Koushki (b. 1984), performed between 2019 and 2020 in Tehran, Iran, ... -
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 ... -
'how like death they are!': Death and Childhood in the Novels of Charles Dickens
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis studies the intersection between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourses on childhood and Victorian attitudes towards death in the moribund child of Charles Dickens's novels. By the nineteenth century, ... -
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. ... -
Ayn Rand and the posthuman : the mind-made future
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)American novelist Ayn Rand's documented influence on politicians, economists, and businesspeople, makes her work an ideal case study for fiction's impact on society. This thesis considers Rand’s veneration of technological ... -
Estrange conflict : fragments of the Irish Troubles in the science fiction of Bob Shaw and James White
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)A study of the work of the Belfast science fiction authors Bob Shaw and James White, two hitherto ignored authors in Irish Studies. Much written about Shaw and White has originated from British and American science fiction ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Apologising for the inconvenience : defamiliarisation and displacement in landscapes in The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)This thesis sought to examine worldbuilding in science fiction, and to establish whether a single driving force, named a strange attractor could be identified in an author's constructed secondary world. A theory of ... -
"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 ... -
Images of Spain in Irish Literature 1922-1975
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The PhD thesis "Images of Spain in Twentieth Century Irish Literature" discusses the ways in which Spain and its people are represented in Irish novels, short stories, poems, plays, auto/biographies, and travelogues written ... -
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 ... -
Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War
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Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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'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 ... -
From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)In the opening decades of the twentieth century a close connection was forged between Ireland and British East Africa (or the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya as it became in 1920) by three of the children of the fourth ...