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, ...

This thesis argues that the place of the self and the figure in the works of poet Claudia Rankine and visual artist Mary McIntyre is integral to their formal innovation and shared attention to the ethics of visual ...

This thesis demonstrates revenge tragedy's ongoing engagement with early modern law in its myriad forms during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. I begin by showing in the introduction the relevance of an ...

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 ...

[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 ...

The aim of this thesis is to give serious consideration to the relatively neglected radio dramas and features of Louis MacNeice, showing how they were an imaginative and innovative development of what was at the time an ...

This thesis explores the cultural significance of music to Travellers, as described in their own words. By examining the songs included in Traveller memoirs, it aims to reflect cultural practices and concerns which are ...

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 ...