English (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
“She stimulates us to supply what is not there”: Expanding Jane Austen’s World Through Fandom
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis aims to explore Jane Austen?s lively afterlife in popular culture through an exploration of fanfiction inspired by her most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice (1813). The thesis combines analysis of online ... -
Beckett and French, 1906-1946: A Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis constitutes a study of Samuel Beckett and French during the years 1906-1946, covering that period from his earliest exposure to the French language up to the moment of his post-War linguistic turn . Adopting ... -
Puritan responses to antinomianism in the context of reformed covenant theology: 1630-1696
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)This thesis analyzes the way in which six seventeenth-century puritans from both sides of the Atlantic responded to antinomians—those accused of rejecting divine law—and the methods these six puritans used in their responses. ... -
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 ... -
As You Are Now : Post-Dramatic Theatre in Ireland (2009 – 2014)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)In recent years, post-dramatic theatre in Ireland has transitioned from a fringe practice to a consistent feature of annual venue programmes and curated festivals. This thesis investigates the emergence of this theatrical ... -
Why is your brand crisis? : challenging the representation of masculinity in the work of Richard Yates, Richard Ford, and Jonathan Franzen
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)Through an analysis of American fiction, with a special focus on the writing of Richard Yates, Richard Ford, and Jonathan Franzen, this thesis argues that American men have always struggled with what it means to be an ... -
"Beyond the Veil": The Antarctic Gothic Fictions of Poe, Verne, Leahy, Lovecraft, and Campbell
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)The Antarctic has frequently been a location for Gothic narratives. Ever since Captain Cook declared that it was better for mankind not to know anything about the mysterious land which lay on the other side of the frozen ... -
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 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 ... -
'The word this worldes cause entriketh': Negotiating Fallen Signs in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis argues that the Confessio Amantis is a study in the inadequacy of language and its constructs. It asserts that, like his fourteenth-century contemporary authors, Gower explores the mutable condition of language, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Food and Power in Roald Dahl's Children's Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2017)This thesis examines the representation of food and power in Roald Dahl's children's fiction written between the years 1961 and 1990. This thesis explores how the relationship between food and power in Dahl's biographical ... -
Lolita and the Mythologies of Femininity
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"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 ... -
'This I Believe' : meaningful belief and uncertainty in the novels of Walker Percy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This thesis analyses how the American novelist Walker Percy (1916-1990) anatomizes belief in his six novels and one work of non-fiction satire, Lost in the Cosmos (1983). In critical studies of Percy’s fiction, no study ... -
A Victorian dissenter : Robert Govett and the doctrine of Millennial Reward
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis centers on Robert Govett (1813-1901), an English dissenting clergyman and author who wrote as a scholar of biblical prophecy, primarily on the subject of the “exclusion” of believers in the Millennial Kingdom, ... -
Imaginary bodies : legal fictions and rhetorical tropes in early modern English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis is an investigation of the development and significance of the early modem English use of the term “body politic”, both as a rhetorical trope and as a legal term of art. Unlike previous scholarly work on the ...
