English (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Fairies in Early Modern English Drama: Fictionality and Theatrical Landscapes, 1575-1615
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)In 1575, the fairy queen appeared as a character in the entertainments presented to Queen Elizabeth I at Woodstock in what appears to be the first instance of a fairy character scripted into an English dramatic performance. ... -
Irish writers and the British periodical press 1880-1900
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This project assesses the extent and significance of Irish contributions to the British periodical press of the 1880s and 1890s. It examines the cultural and historical context of some fifteen writers, situating them in a ... -
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 ... -
Speaking Back: Queerness, Temporality, and the Irish Voice in America
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis examines the intersections of Irishness and queerness in the work of five contemporary American writers and cultural figures. The queer Irish voice in America remains almost entirely neglected in Irish and ... -
Irish Children's Literature and the Poetics of Memory, 1892-2016
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland following the Celtic Revival and into the twenty-first century. It argues that these ... -
The cultural politics of William Carlos William's poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis offers a political reading of William Carlos Williams's poetry. Grounding its analysis in the work of a range of authors and theorists, as well as his own biography and writings, it approaches Williams's poems ... -
"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 ... -
The Great Clock Tower: Time and Narrative in the Late Works of W.B. Yeats
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)James Scanlon The Great Clock Tower: Time and Narrative in the Late Works of W.B. Yeats This dissertation is a study of time and narrative in the late works of W.B. Yeats. I argue that, in the early twentieth century, the ... -
More than meets the eye : truth in the eighteenth-century novel
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)In the eighteenth century it was commonly believed that Britain was experiencing a servant crisis. In consequence of the changing nature of the master-servant relationship which was shifting from a patriarchal style to ... -
Orientations: the positions and aesthetics of contemporary migrant fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)Touching on the work of David Dabydeen, Caryl Phillips, Fred D’Aguiar, Jamaica Kincaid, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi I will examine, in this thesis, the political, aesthetic and historical orientation ... -
Randall Jarrell, canonicity, multiplicity, travesty : the apocalyptic margins of the still, human center
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)The thesis finds that Randall Jarrell's writing fails to meet the expectations of the American canon and travesties the aesthetic conventions of American literary modernism. It is often kitsch or melodramatic, it can be ... -
A variation of voices : Frank O'Connor, 1922-1939
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)Frank O'Connor - short-story writer, poet, playwright, novelist and literary critic - filled an important role in the cultural debates of mid-twentieth-century Ireland. My thesis concentrates on his more critically neglected ... -
The Irish landscape in Somerville and Ross's fiction and illustrations, 1890-1915
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)As inheritors of an Anglo-Irish Protestant tradition who wrote in the midst of a vibrant consumer culture of the fin-de-siecle, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross developed their satirical fictions to reflect central ambiguities ... -
Echoes traveling off from the center : contemporary poetic engagements with the poetry of Sylvia Plath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)The introduction of the thesis makes clear the vital need for this study and explains how its methodology privileges poetic practice rather than critical narratives as it centres on close readings of a range of poems by ... -
Tradition and ephemerality : suburban voices in Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This thesis is a work of literary critique. It attempts to explore the significance of the concepts of tradition and ephemerality within the work of Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle. This is done not only on the level of ... -
The ironic conscience : a study of the first extended phase of Derek Mahon's poetry - from Night-Crossing (1968) to Antarctica (1985)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis reappraises the first extended phase of Mahon’s early poetry, from Night- Crossing (1968) to Antarctica (1985), in the light of the concept of the ironic conscience. It begins by outlining an initial definition ... -
Some explanation of this hard, real life : the problem of evil in mid-Victorian literature and culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)[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 ... -
Black Gay Male Identity in the African Diaspora
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This study seeks to fill this gap. By interrogating new or overlooked characterizations of positive black gay male identity, it seeks to address theorizations of black identity as it relates to black gay male identity. -
(Not) Everything ends in tears : individuals, communities, and peacemaking in the Íslendingasögur
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2017)The íslendingasögur, or Icelandic family sagas, represent a deeply introspective cultural endeavour, the exploration of a nation of strong-willed, independent, and occasionally destructive men and women as they attempted ... -
T. H. White: A Critical Biography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis is a critical biography of the author T. H. White. My purpose is to define the influences on his work throughout his life and set him in the historical and cultural context of the period from the 1930s through ...
