English (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Wallace Stevens in creative conversation : the occasion of long-considered sense
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis contends that Stevens is engaged in creative conversation. His poems generate conversations between each other and with earher poets. For Stevens is in conversation with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge ... -
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 ... -
The Look : ethics and ontology in Herman Melville's The Piazza, Bartleby, the Scrivener, and Benito Cereno
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis proposes to answer to the question of the Other and the Other as question in Herman Melville's The Piazza (January and February 1856), Bartleby, the Scrivener; a Story of Wall Street (November and December 1853) ... -
"Some Safe Way of Dying": A Literary Study of Suicide in 1940s Britain
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)The hitherto unimaginable challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath were, this thesis contends, mediated through a language and imaginative framework of suicide in British ... -
The forgotten Piers Plowman : early Tudor Plowman texts
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)Methods: This thesis combines textual analysis with research into the historical, religious and literary context of early Tudor Ploughman texts, looking back to the late fourteenth century ploughman literature. In chapter ... -
John Donne and religious authority in the reformed English church
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis examines the place of religious authority in the thought of John Donne. The methodology employed is a historically contextualised close reading of Donne's works, with particular focus on the sermons. This reading ... -
Multi city : contemporary literary chronotopes of London
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)The general subject of this study is the representation of London in contemporary British literature. In particular, it asks whether literary chronotopes of London participate in the emergence of a dialogic city. In order ... -
Sacerdos Parochialis edited from British Library MS Burney 356 & Exornatorium Curatorum edited from Cambridge Corpus Christi Sp.335.2
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis is in two parts. Each part contains a critical edition of a late Middle English manual of religious instruction. The first edition is Sacerdos Parochialis and is found in eleven extant manuscripts from the ... -
Joyce's Mandala
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)The term "mandala" is a Sanskrit word which can be translated as meaning "sacred circle". The "circle" in this instance typically encloses a highly structured icon which represents a microcosm of the universe and/or ... -
Narrative authority and truth claims in late medieval and early modern accounts of travel to Jerusalem
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis explores continuity and change in the construction of authority and truth claims in accounts of travel to Jerusalem from 1432 to 1632. It takes as its main materials manuscript or printed narratives written ... -
False things and things unable to be true: representation and fraud in Chaucer
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis was born of two assumptions about Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The first was that the rejection of poetry in the Parson's Prologue and Tale and the Retractions was in no sense ironic, but rather the expression, ... -
The revolution in action : servants in British fictions of the 1790s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)Taking its title from Napoleon's famous description of Figaro as "the Revolution in action", the following thesis explores the depiction of servants in British fictions of the 1790s, and argues that both radical and ... -
Geoffrey Chaucer and the culture of dissent : the Wycliffite context and subcontext of the Parson's Tale
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)Geoffrey Chaucer's Parson's Tale is comparatively neglected by the critics who, as this thesis will demonstrate, perceive it to be an inept attempt at the closure of an otherwise masterful work. Its apparent opacity, ... -
Unexpected landscapes : literature and revolution in modern Ireland and Spain - 1913-39
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)In this study I examine the inter-relationship between literature and revolution in modern Ireland and Spain. I concentrate on the period 1913 to 1923 in regard to Irish affairs, a decade that saw the re-emergence of the ... -
Unholy images of corruption : the beast-man in the nineteenth-century novel
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This is not a thesis about beasts. Nor is it a thesis about men. It is, rather, a thesis about that indefinable and inhospitable distance that exists between the two, represented in popular fiction by the image of the ... -
How does rhetoric of drama shed light on truth and reason in Hamlet?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis will examine how speech can be used or abused once disembedded from the Judaeo/Christian ontological framework which normally sustained and validated it. Chapter one looks at speech being used to express, ... -
Nostalgias of innocence and guilt : the post-Cold War reflections of John Updike and Don DeLillo
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This thesis examines the post-Cold War work of the American novelists John Updike and Don DeLillo, paying particular attention to the manifestations and treatment of nostalgia in these texts. Focussing primarily on the ... -
The profane poetic of the Canterbury Tales
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)The low standing of medieval aesthetics and literary theory is looking increasingly undeserved. The last three decades have been described by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson as a 'golden age' for the 'study of medieval ... -
Rhythm and Modernity: The Concept of Dynamic Unity in Literature of the Early 20 th Century Metropolis
This dissertation explores the way in which a number of key modernist writers, including Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, and the group of artists commonly known as ‘the Rhythmists,’ used rhythm as a framework for both ... -
The Grounded Patriot: Oliver Goldsmith as Historical Compiler
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) began his career as a writer in London in 1757 and laboured as an anonymous hack until he leaped into literary stardom with the publication of his first, major poem, The Traveller (1764). His ...
