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  Louis MacNeice and the Writing of the Mind 

  Jones, Alexander David (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)

  This thesis explores the influence of psychology and philosophy of mind on the writing of Louis MacNeice. This challenges current thinking on MacNeice s treatment of selfhood and consciousness, which has previously been ...
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  Grief, Emotional Communities and Anglo-French Rivalry in Late-Medieval English and French Literature 

  O'Connell, Julia Roisin (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)

  This thesis provides the first extended study of the representation of grief in late-medieval English and French literature. It examines a range of medieval texts, including the Pearl-poem, Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the ...
• Why Does Mary Weep? Emotion and Gender in Advent lines 164-213 (Advent Lyric VII) 

  Jorgensen, Alice (2021)

  This article re-reads Lyric VII of the poem Advent, the dialogue of Mary and Joseph. The division of speeches in this lyric has been debated, largely on grounds of the plausibility of the emotions that are apparently ...
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  Harry Potter and the Invisible Hand: The Notion of Inevitable Inequality, and 'Niceness' as Moral Action in J.K. Rowling's Neoliberal Fantasy 

  Chattopadhyay, Kabir (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)

  My thesis explores contemporary children's fantasy literature, and the changing popular perceptions of fundamental moral concepts disseminated for young readerships in such texts. I have chosen as my primary text of survey ...
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  "'Foul, strange and unnatural': Poison as a murder weapon in English Renaissance drama" 

  Sadowski, Piotr (2020)

  Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonorable and unmanly, poison was ...

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