English (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Maria Edgeworth : a sense of place
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)The life of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was characterised by one event which was to have a lasting influence on her self-determination as a person and a writer. This event was her move in 1782 to Edgeworthstown, a small ... -
Beauty as a matter of course : the representation of the heroine in the novels of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis analyses the development of the convention of the beautiful heroine in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel. The period inherited a profoundly dichotomised conception of beauty, beauty as a ... -
To write for my own race : the Irish response to W.B.Yeats in his lifetime
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis examines the reception accorded to W. B. Yeats in Ireland during his lifetime. While the principal focus is on his literary work, due attention is also paid to the many political and cultural conflicts in which ... -
Women and consent to unwanted marriage in Middle English romance and antecedent discourses
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This dissertation addresses female resistance to marriage in popular Middle English romance. It presents a thematic study encompassing the history and transmission of misogamy in the Middle Ages, tracing the anti-matrimonial ... -
James Joyce, music and memory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis, James Joyce, Music and Memory, explores the connection between music and Irish cultural memory in Joyce’s works from Chamber Music to the “pure music” of Finnegans Wake. Overall, it shows that Joyce’s ongoing ... -
The politics of praise : influence and authority in John Berryman's poetry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This thesis is a reappraisal of John Berryman’s achievement that stresses his poetry’s critical agency over and against the prevailing tendency to describe it in narrow confessional terms. Questioning the received view of ... -
The protesting conscience : the role of women in the Irish novels of Kate O'Brien
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A biographical study of Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and his historical and cultural milieu
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1987)Introduction: explains the nature of this biographical study of Southwell, how it differs from previous ones; the contributions it seeks to make; and the general lines along which the biographical narrative proceeds. It ... -
An imagined Irish girlhood : representations of female identity formation and development in the novels of Kate O'Brien, Maura Laverty, and Edna O'Brien
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Folklore and the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007) -
That was a good king! : Beowulf and its prologue
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006) -
Destabilizing Shakespeare : adaptations for children, 1807-2007
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Towards an aesthetics of blindness : an interdisciplinary response to Synge, Yeats and Friel
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Queer be dragons: Mapping LGBT fantasy novels 1987-2000
(Trinity College Dublin, 2016)Fantasy, considered as a genre, is an ideal space to represent the queer, strange, and different in ways that attract both a readership of enjoyment and the academic critic. It should therefore be well-placed to include ... -
Writing 'that animal darkness': Galway Kinnell, Gary Snyder, James Merrill
As humanity’s most evident other, at once deeply similar to and fundamentally different from the human, the animal is a valuable poetical trope. This thesis examines the representation and function of animals and animality ...
