RSS 1.0English (Theses and Dissertations)
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Extreme Bodies in the Fiction of Wilkie Collins
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis places Wilkie Collins's work in the context of nineteenth-century debates on extreme bodily differences, ranging from physical disability to exceptional ability. Recurrent in Collins's fiction are extreme bodies ... -
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. -
"Welcome to the Good Life!" Neoliberalism(s) and Contemporary Irish Women's Short Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis examines the ways in which neoliberalism as a pervasive economic, political, and cultural discourse is represented, recreated, and subverted in contemporary short fiction by Claire Keegan, Nicole Flattery, Lucy ... -
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 ... -
`There's A Terrible Difference': Bodies of Knowledge in Shirley Jackson's America
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis explores the interaction of bodies and minds in the work of American author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) through the investigation of Jackson's historical contexts. I frame my exploration on the work of Jackson's ... -
"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 ... -
Intermedial Modernism: Mina Loy, E. E. Cummings, and Poet-Painter Artisthood
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This study focuses on the figure of modernist poet-painters, specifically Mina Loy and E. E. Cummings, within a redefined context of intermedial modernism in the early twentieth century. Through an in-depth exploration of ... -
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 ... -
'The New Womanly Man': Cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis, ‘The New Womanly Man’: Cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries, explores questions of gender identity and performance by examining depictions of cross-dressing and gender inversion ... -
Memory and Displacement in Historical Fiction for Children about the Second World War, 2005?2021
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis examines the representation of memory and displacement in Anglophone historical fiction for children published between 2005 and 2021. It argues that memory is a significant aspect of how these texts ask the ... -
Reading Forests, Seeing Trees: Visual Poetry with Neurohumanities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)The new contexts of visual materiality engendered by the internet and digital age problematise traditional strategies of critically analysing experimental forms of poetry. By approaching poetry across history as a phenomenon ... -
Brian O'Nolan's Systems of Mediation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis focuses on the significance of mediation in Brian O?Nolan?s body of work. The term `mediation' is used within the context of recent media theory such as that of Friedrich Kittler, and it refers to the way that ... -
Toward a Digital Genetic Edition of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' Chapter II.2
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)This thesis is intended as a minor contribution to the broader discussion of digital textual editing. It uses a case study of James Joyce¿s creative process during the composition of Chapter II.2 of Finnegans Wake as a way ...
