School of English: Recent submissions
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`There's A Terrible Difference': Bodies of Knowledge in Shirley Jackson's America
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis explores the interaction of bodies and minds in the work of American author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) through the investigation of Jackson's historical contexts. I frame my exploration on the work of Jackson's ... -
"Say it simply [...] say it simplier" : Samuel Beckett and Gertrude Stein's aesthetics of writing worser
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)While critics have long acknowledged the critical importance of Samuel Beckett's expressed desire in the Axel Kaun letter, dated July 9 1937, to tear at language as an indication of his changing aesthetics, they have tended ... -
Images of Spain in Irish Literature 1922-1975
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The PhD thesis "Images of Spain in Twentieth Century Irish Literature" discusses the ways in which Spain and its people are represented in Irish novels, short stories, poems, plays, auto/biographies, and travelogues written ... -
Intermedial Modernism: Mina Loy, E. E. Cummings, and Poet-Painter Artisthood
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This study focuses on the figure of modernist poet-painters, specifically Mina Loy and E. E. Cummings, within a redefined context of intermedial modernism in the early twentieth century. Through an in-depth exploration of ... -
Politics and national identity in the works of Frances Burney
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis analyses the novels and plays of Frances Burney in order to highlight the author's engagement with political concerns of her time, including the concepts of national identity and sympathy. Groups who experienced ... -
Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War
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Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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'Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: the making of a "national reader"'
(Rodopi, 2014)This paper examines ‘national reading’ in nineteenth-century Ireland in relation to concepts of Irish modernity. Through William St Clair’s framework of the ‘reading nation’, I assess historical descriptions of reading ... -
From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)In the opening decades of the twentieth century a close connection was forged between Ireland and British East Africa (or the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya as it became in 1920) by three of the children of the fourth ... -
'The New Womanly Man': Cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis, ‘The New Womanly Man’: Cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries, explores questions of gender identity and performance by examining depictions of cross-dressing and gender inversion ... -
Memory and Displacement in Historical Fiction for Children about the Second World War, 2005?2021
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis examines the representation of memory and displacement in Anglophone historical fiction for children published between 2005 and 2021. It argues that memory is a significant aspect of how these texts ask the ... -
Reading Forests, Seeing Trees: Visual Poetry with Neurohumanities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)The new contexts of visual materiality engendered by the internet and digital age problematise traditional strategies of critically analysing experimental forms of poetry. By approaching poetry across history as a phenomenon ... -
Screaming for Champions
(2022)This short piece reflects on screaming and female rage in response to pregnancy and childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic. This piece reflects on my daughter's expert screaming and my own (wasted) efforts trying to pacify ... -
A Winter in Bath, 1796-97: Life Writing and the Irish Adolescent Self
(University of Groningen Press, 2021)The diary form affords multiple generations of women with a vehicle for expressing themselves, and is particularly germane to younger writers, developing a voice, and shaping a sense of self as they emerge from childhood. ... -
On the Edge of Chaos: Space and Power in Maria Edgeworth's "The Grateful Negro" (1804)
(Cambridge Unversity Press, 2022)‘The Grateful Negro’ (1804) is one of Maria Edgeworth’s less well-known children’s stories. Set on a Jamaican plantation, it concerns the differing attitudes of two white plantation owners, Mr Edwards and Mr Jefferies, ... -
'Beaten Down and Built Anew': Saint Erkenwald and Old St. Paul�s
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Brian O'Nolan's Systems of Mediation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis focuses on the significance of mediation in Brian O?Nolan?s body of work. The term `mediation' is used within the context of recent media theory such as that of Friedrich Kittler, and it refers to the way that ... -
Toward a Digital Genetic Edition of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' Chapter II.2
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)This thesis is intended as a minor contribution to the broader discussion of digital textual editing. It uses a case study of James Joyce¿s creative process during the composition of Chapter II.2 of Finnegans Wake as a way ... -
Reconstructing name : Lady Gregory's tragic Irish heroine
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1999)This thesis discusses the development of historian, folklorist and dramatist Lady Gregory's dramatic technique in regard to her Folk-History plays, Kincora I and II, Dervorgilla, and Grania. The focus of the thesis is on ... -
Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities
(TARA, 2022)This report provides the findings from an inter-disciplinary project that sought to investigate and advance the potential of shared reading groups to promote purposeful and meaningful dialogue among Northern Ireland interface ...