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 examines the subject of menstrual blood in gothic and horror literature and film. It aims to map and locate negative constructions and representations of the menstrual body within the genre while also pointing ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis discusses the development of historian, folklorist and dramatist Lady Gregory's dramatic technique in regard to her Folk-History plays, Kincora I and II, Dervorgilla, and Grania. The focus of the thesis is on ...

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 ...