Browsing English (Theses and Dissertations) by Sponsor "Irish Research Council (IRC)"
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Beckett's and Murakami's 'Vaguened' Worlds
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)On the first page of the first Happy Days typescript, Samuel Beckett wrote the self-instruction vaguen it : the obscuring and occasional erasure of contextual markers occurs frequently throughout his body of work. It is ... -
Closed Spaces: Beckett and Confinement
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2017)This thesis is the first sustained study of Samuel Beckett?s career-long engagement with confinement, examining both his use of institutions of coercive confinement as well as the function of the closed spaces of his later ... -
The Country and the City in the Irish Novel, 1922-51
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis investigates the representation of the country and the city in the Irish novel north and south after partition. The political success of both Irish nationalism and Ulster unionism were partly shaped by a popular ... -
Darby O'Gill and the construction of Irish identity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis investigates the role of the term ?Darby O?Gill? in the modern Irish consciousness as a signifier of a pejorative construction of Irish identity and the extent to which it is justified when all cultural ... -
The Domestic Noir Fiction of Gillian Flynn
This dissertation's focus is grounded in literary modernism's engagement with psychoanalytic theory and its therapeutic applications in the early 20th century. It examines how the ubiquity of Freud s theories at that time ... -
Envoy: A Review of Literature and Art and Post-War Irish Culture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis examines the Irish literary and visual art magazine Envoy: A Review of Literature and Art (1949-1951). It establishes the magazine as a key post-war site of transnational aspiration and activity at the beginning ... -
Explorations of "an alien past": Identity, Gender, and Belonging in the Short Fiction of Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, and Margaret Atwood
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)The short fiction of Canadian writers Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, and Margaret Atwood highlights the continued and evolving complexity of national identity and gender inequality issues, in Canada and transnationally. These ... -
Grief, Emotional Communities and Anglo-French Rivalry in Late-Medieval English and French Literature
(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 ... -
Laying in the Dark: The Literary Night in Nineteenth-Century American Prose
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)This thesis examines nineteenth-century American prose via the lens of night studies, to demonstrate how the literary night was used to construct and challenge issues of gender and race in the United States. It focuses ... -
Louis MacNeice and the Writing of the Mind
(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 ... -
"The soul has ears": Music and movement in the poetry of John Berryman
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2017)"The soul has ears": Music and Movement in the Poetry of John Berryman Berryman’s musical interest is consistently remarked on by readers of his work, but remains vastly understudied, though it touches almost every ... -
Theatre and Everyday Space: The Case of Tom Murphy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)The thesis investigates the relationship between modern theatre and everyday space, taking contemporary Irish playwright Tom Murphy (1935-2018) as a case study. Dramatising everyday life has been the focus of many playwrights, ... -
"This matter of the individual": Nathaniel Hawthorne's Individualism
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This dissertation provides extensive critical engagement with ideas of individualism in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). This largely unexplored area presents a major lacuna in Hawthorne Studies, and this project ... -
Typography and Narrative Voice in Children's Literature: Relationships, Interactions, and Symbiosis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis explores the relationship between typography and narrative voice in children’s literature. Substantial attention has been paid in the past to the word/image interaction in children’s books due to their multimodal ... -
Unsettling Le Fanu: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Irish Settler Writing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis argues that the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) can be read as a form of settler writing. Using settler theory as a reading strategy in the analysis of Le Fanu’s short fiction, this thesis argues ... -
Writing, Reading and Collecting Girlhood: Maria Edgeworth in the Pollard Collection of Children's Books
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2025)This thesis is a sustained examination of the Pollard Collection of Children's Books which uses girlhood as a framework within the Collection. It contextualises the author Maria Edgeworth, the most prolific writer in the ...
