English (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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The Calendar and the Scop: Beowulf as an Example of Anglo-Saxon Discourses on Time
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)In this thesis, I analyse Beowulf as a self-reflexive poem on time based on representations of time in the Anglo-Saxon period. The question of time transcends the long-standing issue of the dialectic relationship between ... -
Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged ... -
Louis MacNeice : radio, poetry and the aural imagination
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The aim of this thesis is to give serious consideration to the relatively neglected radio dramas and features of Louis MacNeice, showing how they were an imaginative and innovative development of what was at the time an ... -
In enigmate : the evolution of a riddlic idea from symphosius to the child ballads
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis studies the evolution of a particular riddle complex within the subgenre of the Symphosian Riddle, a development over more than a thousand years in which, I argue, the line of influence is unusually clear. ... -
The church without the church : desert orthodoxy in Flannery O'Connor's Dear Old Dirty Southland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2011)In the nearly fifty years since her death, the critical study of the life and work of Mary Flannery O'Connor has been conventionally delimited to two critical parameters: the greater "South" and the Church of Rome. My ... -
The hermeneutics of crisis : evangelicals, apocalypse and conflict in Northern Ireland Troubles
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)Apocalyptic eschatology sets us questions that lead us into the heart of the relationship between ideas and their expression in culture. The significance of apocalyptic eschatology becomes apparent upon a brief consideration ... -
The Image of Both Churches' : the uses of convention in Tudor polemical literature, 1528-1563
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis offers a literary analysis of mid-Tudor polemics, texts chiefly valued by historians in the field of Reformation studies. It focuses on the metaphors and imagery which polemicists use to put across their ... -
The walking text : narrativised identities in the work of Philip Roth
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The introduction to this thesis makes clear the need for a reconsideration of Roth's representation of self-identity through an examination of how selfhood and self identity are represented and experienced through narrative. ... -
William Allingham in his contexts
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis examines the work of William Allingham within its social, cultural and historical contexts in order to clarify the true influences behind the Donegal poet's poems and ballads and the driving force behind his ... -
Escaping her biography : Maeve Brennan's 'Nomadic Consciousness'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)The introduction of the thesis makes clear the vital need for this study and explains how its methodology privileges theoretical positions over biographical narratives as it centres on close readings of some of Brennan's ... -
Working-class Dublin in fiction and plays, 1954-2004
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis explores the depiction of working-class Dublin in fiction and plays from 1954 to 2004. It examines how proletarian identity is depicted in this body of writing, the common themes and ideas it sustains, and what ... -
Prompting prudence : early modern revenge drama and the memory-training tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis examines the methods by whieh revenge playwrights direct playgoer attention to significant moments in their plays. My contention is that many of the devices employed by these playwrights in their dramaturgical ... -
The war is in words and the wood is the world : an ecocritical reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)"The war is in worlds and the wood is the world': An Ecocritical Reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake'' is the first work to attempt a comprehensive ecocritical reading of any of James Joyce's texts. This thesis approaches ... -
'Exogamous Brides' : representations of inter-faith relationships in Irish fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This study offers a comprehensive assessment of how a broad range of Irish novelists depicted mixed marriages or inter-faith relationships from the 1860s to the 1960s, and argues that heterogeneous depictions of these ... -
Creation and sub-creation : divine and human authorship in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)J.R.R. Tolkien spent the greater part of his adult life constructing an imaginary world; its cosmology, history, legends, and languages. He described this process as 'sub-creation', a definition embodying the connection ... -
Consider the editor : textual process in the fiction of Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis examines the contribution of Gordon Lish and Michael Pietsch to key works of Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace, respectively. The Prologue situates the two authors in a historical framework, considering ... -
'Manhattan weighed on his eyelid' : reading Ted Hughes in the context of four American writers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)The introduction to this thesis documents and establishes Ted Hughes' growing interest in American writing while at Cambridge and suggests that Hughes' engagement with American writing from this point in his career onwards ... -
'Identity through talk' : personal narrative and social practice in Anglo-Saxon literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This study is an analysis of a selection of first-person literary narratives written in pre- Conquest England. Primary texts have been chosen from the corpus of Old English poetry and Anglo-Latin colloquy tradition, with ... -
And God seith...': representations of divine speech and personal relationship to God in Middle English literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis aims to analyse the diegetic representation of divine discourse, in particular, the reported speech of God in Middle English literature. It focuses on the narratorial stance of key texts towards such representations ... -
A lesson in presents : social change in the writing of Brendan Kennelly, 1980-2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores the relationship between form in the writing of Irish poet Brendan Kennelly and social change in Ireland between 1980 and 2000. Using the ideas of postmodern theorists including Jean-Frangois Lyotard, ...
