English (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Good enough to eat : a study of cannibalism in literature and film in the twentieth century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis is an examination of the cannibal figure in 19th and 20th century literature and film. The cannibal transgresses boundaries of normality and morality and is thus considered Other. As a transgressor of boundaries, ... -
Vindictive justice and participatory revenge : English revenge tragedy's engagement with early modern law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis demonstrates revenge tragedy's ongoing engagement with early modern law in its myriad forms during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. I begin by showing in the introduction the relevance of an ... -
Stages of madness : representations of madness in Shakespeare's Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)This thesis is divided in six chapters that are grouped in pairs. The first, third, and fifth chapters deal with a single theoretical area of influence on the perception of madness in Shakespeare’s time and provide contextual ... -
Maculate conceptions : Irish film and drama of the 1930s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)In the 1930s Ireland grasped the opportunity to define itself as a modern free state and the decade is thus one of the most dynamic in Ireland’s history since Independence. Within the space of ten years, Fianna Fail came ... -
The female uncanny? : A historicised reading of the uncanny fiction of Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson & Joyce Carol Oates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This study evaluates whether it is appropriate to consider the work of three women writers of uncanny fiction as evidence of a distinctive female sub-genre in the uncanny. A literature review of certain second-wave feminist ... -
I carpenter a space for the thing I am given : influence and the consciousness of space in Emily Dickenson, H. D. and Sylvia Plath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The introduction indicates the context from which my examination of the continuities between Emily Dickinson, H.D., and Sylvia Plath arose; it does so by stating the principal areas of difference between this thesis and ... -
George Reavey (1907-1976) : The endless chain, a literary biography
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)George Reavey (1907-1976) was an experimental poet, an enterprising publisher and literary agent and an esteemed critic and translator of Russian literature. His literary beginnings can be traced back to Cambridge, where ... -
Giving those angry ghosts their due : Louis McNeice's intertextual dialogue with W. B. Yeats
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis examines the nature and significance of Louis MacNeice’s engagement with W.B. Yeats. Throughout the 1930s, and the early years of the 1940s, MacNeice sought to evaluate Yeats’s legacy. His preoccupation with ... -
The imagination of urban chaos : representations of terrorism in late Victorian and modernist literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)Modern terrorism emerged in the 1880s and 1890s, when outbreaks of apparently sporadic violence by nihilists, Irish republicans and anarchists changed the way in which the public viewed the issue of political subversion. ... -
Maria Edgeworth and romance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This dissertation concentrates upon an important tension manifest across Edgeworth’s prolific writings, and it contends that this tension finally illustrates her unease with the didactic tenets that she (overtly) promoted ... -
Do you know who I am? : contextualising Shirley Jackson
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis attempts to broaden the current critical approach towards Shirley Jackson by discussing her work within the cultural, social, literary and historical contexts of America during the 1950s. This is the first time ... -
Completing the union : Charles Robert Maturin and the (ir)reconciliations of romantic national fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis analyses the novels of Charles Robert Maturin in order to highlight the author’s engagement with contemporary literary forms, including the Gothic, the national tale, and the historical novel. By first offering ... -
Dion Boucicault's Irish melodramas : national identity, politics and the Press
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis undertakes a detailed study of the reception of Dion Boucicault’s Irish plays in the New York-London-Dublin theatre triangle which the playwright inhabited. The plays are The Colleen Bawn (1860); Arrah-na-Pogue ... -
Birds bred in cages : Katherine Mansfield and the anxiety of authority
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)This thesis accounts for the growing professionalisation of Katherine Mansfield as a writer between the years of 1910 and 1922, and addresses the ways in which the publication contexts in which her writing first appeared ... -
Others had the making of me : the cultural construction of serial murder
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis examines the framing devices which are used to interpret serial murder and their role in shaping our understanding of this most disturbing subject. Each chapter considers a period of writing which, I have argued, ... -
History's Muse : the prose writings of Thomas Moore
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)Since his heyday in the nineteenth century Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852) has often been considered Ireland’s national poet, principally because of his Irish Melodies (ten numbers, 1808 - 34). However, from the mid-1820s on, ... -
The sea of disappointment : Thomas Kinsella's pursuit of the real
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This study provides an extensive examination of the work of Thomas Kinsella by addressing the fundamental question of form which his poetry presents. There are two phases in Kinsella’s writing: one contains poems written ... -
Thomas Hardy's legal fictions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate that Hardy’s role as a magistrate had a pervasive effect on his development of the tragic novel and to argue that legal issues are integral to the narrative pattern of his ... -
The condition of ascent: temperament, perception and transcendence in the later poetry of Wallace Stevens
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)‘Poetry’, Wallace Stevens said, 'is the expression of the experience of poetry' (CPP904). This thesis explores the connection in Stevens’ writing between ‘the experience of poetry’ and the poetic temperament. Stevens viewed ... -
Severed Heads : the influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This thesis is concerned with the literary influence of Oscar Wilde in the work of W.B. Yeats. Yeats was influenced by the images and intellect of Wilde. He assimilated Wilde’s concepts and symbols into his creative ...
