Browsing by Subject "English, Ph.D."
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A lesson in presents : social change in the writing of Brendan Kennelly, 1980-2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores the relationship between form in the writing of Irish poet Brendan Kennelly and social change in Ireland between 1980 and 2000. Using the ideas of postmodern theorists including Jean-Frangois Lyotard, ... -
A mirror and an explosion : mapping the spaces of Roberto Bolaňo's 2666
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)This thesis analyses space and place across Roberto Bolano's 2666. It conducts an analysis of the architecture and the topography of the novel, addressing the ways in which Bolano's deployment of spatial images and his ... -
A ryght hooly Virgin : an edition of Harley MS 630 lives of female saints and Saint Alban
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea (LgA) is one of the most influential books to come from the Middle Ages. It was originally written in Latin in about 1260 but was translated into many European vernaculars. It is a measure ... -
A topoanalytical reading of landscapes in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence (1965-1977)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)In setting out to understand the construction and function of landscapes in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence, I realised that Cooper’s landscapes were not unique but confonned to a series of tropes or paradigms ... -
A variation of voices : Frank O'Connor, 1922-1939
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)Frank O'Connor - short-story writer, poet, playwright, novelist and literary critic - filled an important role in the cultural debates of mid-twentieth-century Ireland. My thesis concentrates on his more critically neglected ... -
A Victorian dissenter : Robert Govett and the doctrine of Millennial Reward
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis centers on Robert Govett (1813-1901), an English dissenting clergyman and author who wrote as a scholar of biblical prophecy, primarily on the subject of the “exclusion” of believers in the Millennial Kingdom, ... -
Against reason : Schopenhauer, Beckett, and the aesthetics of irreducibility
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This dissertation examines the relationship between the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the forms and themes of Beckett’s critical and creative writings. My research aims to show that Beckett’s aesthetic preoccupations are ... -
Allegorical making : Austin Clark, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis looks at the work of three poets, Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) and Thomas Kinsella (1928- ), in order both to raise the profile of allegory as a modality at work in twentieth-century ... -
And God seith...': representations of divine speech and personal relationship to God in Middle English literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis aims to analyse the diegetic representation of divine discourse, in particular, the reported speech of God in Middle English literature. It focuses on the narratorial stance of key texts towards such representations ... -
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 ... -
As You Are Now : Post-Dramatic Theatre in Ireland (2009 – 2014)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)In recent years, post-dramatic theatre in Ireland has transitioned from a fringe practice to a consistent feature of annual venue programmes and curated festivals. This thesis investigates the emergence of this theatrical ... -
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 ... -
Battling with the body : physical and allegorical violence in the English morality plays
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)Battling with the Body: Physical and Allegorical Violence in the English Morality Plays' investigates ways in which medieval allegory finds corporeal expression in the violence of the late medieval stage. Using the ... -
Beauty as a matter of course : the representation of the heroine in the novels of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis analyses the development of the convention of the beautiful heroine in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel. The period inherited a profoundly dichotomised conception of beauty, beauty as a ... -
Before George Eliot : Marian Evans and the mid-Victorian periodical press
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)Before she became 'George Eliot,' Marian Evans worked for over ten years in the periodical press. This thesis clarifies the nature and the significance of that work from 1846-1857. Dismissed in critical and biographical ... -
Behind their eyes : identity in the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)The introduction to this study outlines the theoretical framework for comparing the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim. Using Walter Mignolo's theories about "border thinking," which he outlined in Local Histories/Global ... -
Birds bred in cages : Katherine Mansfield and the anxiety of authority
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)This thesis accounts for the growing professionalisation of Katherine Mansfield as a writer between the years of 1910 and 1922, and addresses the ways in which the publication contexts in which her writing first appeared ... -
Blood, thunder and sudden death : the science and fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)In a letter to his editor in 1919, American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wondered whether he was "going to be known as Edgar Rice Burroughs the author or Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan of the Apes" (Letter ... -
Brian O'Nolan and Irish cultural debate, 1931-1945
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This thesis is a historical study of Brian O'Nolan's fiction and journalism which encompasses the early period of his career, from his earliest newspaper publications in 1931 to the first months of the uncensored, post-war ... -
Completing the union : Charles Robert Maturin and the (ir)reconciliations of romantic national fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis analyses the novels of Charles Robert Maturin in order to highlight the author’s engagement with contemporary literary forms, including the Gothic, the national tale, and the historical novel. By first offering ...
