English (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Literary exhortations : the early fiction of George A. Birmingham
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis will demonstrate the important cultural contribution of the early fiction of the Irish writer George A. Birmingham (1865 - 1950). Born in Belfast on the eve of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and ... -
Germany, Ireland and the Second World War in the works of Christabel Bielenberg, Francis Stuart and Hugo Hamilton
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)Memory has become a focal point of research across several disciplines, including Irish studies. What remains unacknowledged, however, are the roots of memory's ascendancy in the worldwide engagement with the victims of ... -
Departures : the Abbey Theatre on international stages 1975-2005
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis and the included production history of Abbey Theatre tours form part of a broader project under the aegis of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora, The Internationalisation of Irish Drama, 1975-2005. This project ... -
Daniel Defoe and the representation of personal identity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores Daniel Defoe's treatment of the concept of personal identity as a literary construction and as a social fiction. An active contributor to the burgeoning print market of early eighteenthcentury England, ... -
'Not so much 'after landscape' as 'before landscape'': Figurative Experimentation in the Works of Claudia Rankine and Mary McIntyre
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis argues that the place of the self and the figure in the works of poet Claudia Rankine and visual artist Mary McIntyre is integral to their formal innovation and shared attention to the ethics of visual ... -
Horror of the Anthropocene: American Ecohorror Since 1945
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis explores the evolution of environmental anxiety in American horror fiction and film, arguing that the subgenre most commonly referred to as “ecohorror” merits reassessment in the face of global warming’s changing ... -
Writing and reading history : a study of Ezra Pound's Malatesta, Jefferson and Adams Cantos
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis examines Pound's claim that The Cantos are "a poem including history" (Pound's definition of an epic). The principal focus is on the three sequences usually referred to as the Malatesta Cantos (VIII-XI), the ... -
A ryght hooly Virgin : an edition of Harley MS 630 lives of female saints and Saint Alban
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea (LgA) is one of the most influential books to come from the Middle Ages. It was originally written in Latin in about 1260 but was translated into many European vernaculars. It is a measure ... -
Brian O'Nolan and Irish cultural debate, 1931-1945
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This thesis is a historical study of Brian O'Nolan's fiction and journalism which encompasses the early period of his career, from his earliest newspaper publications in 1931 to the first months of the uncensored, post-war ... -
More instructive than any sermon I know' : the eighteenth-century novel and the secularisation of ethics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis argues that there is a connection between the secularisation of ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the rise to moral legitimacy and literary respectability of prose fiction from the ... -
Textual economies : the performative self in the writings of John Newton, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis brings together the writings of John Newton, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince, three figures from both sides of the black/white, slave/slaver, male/female divides who were prominent in the history of British ... -
"Perilous movement" : deconstruction and the discourse of conflict
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis examines the relationship between the discourses of the university and the public press through an analysis of the work and career of Jacques Derrida. The conflictual nature of the reception of deconstruction, ... -
Visions of Paradise : the legacy of history of encounter in twentieth-century Caribbean writing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)This thesis examines the relationship between the work of three twentieth-century Caribbean writers; V. S. Naipaul, Wilson Harris and Derek Walcott, and the legacy of Renaissance accounts of voyages of discovery to the ... -
Walt Whitman & Edward Dowden : 1869-1886
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This literary history provides an extensive examination of Walt Whitman's reception in Ireland in the 1870s and 1880s, at a time when he was broadly vilified for poor artistry and obscenity in America and Europe. It reveals ... -
Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds and the construction of an alternative heroic canon : an intertextual analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The title "At Swim-Two-Birds and the Construction of an Alternative Heroic Canon" refers to O'Brien's intertextual re-reading of traditional Irish texts (early, middle and modem Irish) providing a new image of a changing ... -
Displaced masculinity : men, women and gender disorientation in contemporary Scottish fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)The subject of this thesis is the representation of gender in Scottish fiction since 1980. In writing of this period the stereotype of the Scottish 'hardman' gives way to portraits of uncertain and ineffectual male characters. ... -
The grammar of greatness' : self, community, and inspiration in Oliver St. John Gogarty
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The first chapter of this thesis is introductory, and proposes a reading of Oliver Gogarty as a self-depicting writer, one who usually employs the form of memoir. It argues that Gogarty does not demonstrate the confessionality ... -
Allegorical making : Austin Clark, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis looks at the work of three poets, Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) and Thomas Kinsella (1928- ), in order both to raise the profile of allegory as a modality at work in twentieth-century ... -
The considerations of the curious: natural philosophy in early modern Dublin
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis offers a re-evaluation of the activities and mindset of a community of natural philosophers who described themselves as curious: the members of the Dublin Philosophical Society (1683–1709) (DPS) and their circle ... -
Before George Eliot : Marian Evans and the mid-Victorian periodical press
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)Before she became 'George Eliot,' Marian Evans worked for over ten years in the periodical press. This thesis clarifies the nature and the significance of that work from 1846-1857. Dismissed in critical and biographical ...
