English (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Shifting his weight from foot to foot : between autobiography and autofiction in the poetry of Paul Muldoon
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)In his review of Maggot (2010), published in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Eder writes that ‘Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Proteus to readers who try to pin him down’ (n. pag.). Muldoon’s poetic persona is, ... -
Notorious amateurism : professionalism and patronage in Wyndham Lewis's art-criticism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)It is the objective of this thesis to trace in the art-criticism of Wyndham Lewis a trajectory of a certain model of professionalisation. In my introduction I trace a crucial fault-line along which the discourse of artistic ... -
Against reason : Schopenhauer, Beckett, and the aesthetics of irreducibility
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This dissertation examines the relationship between the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the forms and themes of Beckett’s critical and creative writings. My research aims to show that Beckett’s aesthetic preoccupations are ... -
Narratives of difference : critical (re-)assessment of contemporary Troubles novels
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This dissertation examines the concept of difference as portrayed in contemporary Troubles novels and explores how it affects the sense of belonging to the contested space of Northern Ireland. It analyses a cross-section ... -
Music in the glen : traveller culture and song
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis explores the cultural significance of music to Travellers, as described in their own words. By examining the songs included in Traveller memoirs, it aims to reflect cultural practices and concerns which are ... -
Unsettling belongings : settler colonialism in the selected works of Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This thesis presents a comparative reading of place in selected works by Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen in the context of settler colonialism. In arguing that Anglo- Irish and Creole identities were formed out of the dynamics ... -
Humanism and the early modern essay
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This is a thesis about the emergence, establishment, and development of the early modern essay and the relationships of those processes to various forms of humanism. The essay is considered both as a conceptual entity, ... -
Behind their eyes : identity in the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)The introduction to this study outlines the theoretical framework for comparing the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim. Using Walter Mignolo's theories about "border thinking," which he outlined in Local Histories/Global ... -
Golden apples of the monkey house : a post-Jungian interpretation of myth in the short stories of Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)[exerpt from page 8] This dissertation is cast with hope of drawing scholarly attention to these writers' short fiction [Vonnegut and Bradbury], arguing in the affirmative that there is plenty to be found in these critically ... -
Proximate foreigners : England and its neighbors in the history plays of the 1590s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)The central claim of this thesis is that the correlation between the rise history play genre in the 1590s, concerns about national identity, and emerging disputes over expansion collided in the political/cultural views of ... -
To Arms! : colonial authors and the fiction of invasion 1890-1914
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)In 1909 P. G. Wodehouse penned a comic novella The Swoop! which saw Britain saved from the simultaneous invasion of nine foreign armies by a boy scout named Clarence Chugwater. Wodehouse’s ludicrous plot, which featured ... -
Political visions : George Russell, 1913-1930
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)George Russell, poet and author, was a contemporary of W. B. Yeats and a figure central to the Irish Literary Revival. My thesis concentrates on his editorship of two journals, the Irish Homestead and the Irish Statesman, ... -
Europe is the greatest thing in North America : Delmore Schwartz's 'International Consciousness'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)My introduction considers the way in which Schwartz interprets the American Dream in a seminal essay about Ernest Hemingway, suggesting this as a framework within which to consider Schwartz’s work in general. I then offer ... -
Blood, thunder and sudden death : the science and fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)In a letter to his editor in 1919, American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wondered whether he was "going to be known as Edgar Rice Burroughs the author or Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan of the Apes" (Letter ... -
The Menstruous-Monstrous : female blood in horror
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis examines the subject of menstrual blood in gothic and horror literature and film. It aims to map and locate negative constructions and representations of the menstrual body within the genre while also pointing ... -
Narcissism in the fiction of John Banville
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis concerns narcissism in the work of the novelist John Banville. By examining it as both a psychological characteristic of Banville’s narrators and as a defining quality of the narratives they create, it aims to ... -
They said she was mad' : insanity in the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This thesis contextualises the work of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu in nineteenth-century debates on insanity. Le Fanu lived at a time when psychiatry was establishing itself as a new branch of medicine, and its advances, ... -
Space, place and masculinity in the work of Jane Austen
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis examines masculinity in the work of Jane Austen through the lens of space and place. Austen’s work, in academia as well as the public mind, is associated with one space in particular: England. This association ... -
"It's got something to do with love" : the process and philosophy of communication in the work of David Foster Wallace
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2011)Since David Foster Wallace’s death in 2008, a group of interested scholars has begun to emerge in the US and across Europe. This study forms part of that growing cluster of scholarship. It is the central contention of this ... -
A topoanalytical reading of landscapes in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence (1965-1977)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)In setting out to understand the construction and function of landscapes in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence, I realised that Cooper’s landscapes were not unique but confonned to a series of tropes or paradigms ...
