School of English: Recent submissions
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Harry Potter and the Unconscious Dimension
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)In this thesis I explore the extent to which an unconscious response on the part of the reader may contribute to the extraordinary popularity among both children adults of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997—2007). ... -
The mind's blue eye : Berkeleian casts in the poetry of Richard Wilbur
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)One is struck, throughout the poetry of Richard Wilbur, by a tantalizing resemblance to the work of two close contemporaries: Howard Nemerov in the United States and Philip Larkin in Great Britain. Wilbur admired both, ... -
'Trinity Professors versus Men of Letters: Ferguson, Dowden and De Vere'
(2022)This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in the late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after the poet’s death in 1886, W. B. Yeats considered ... -
Review of The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790 by Joe Lines
(2022)There was a time when Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent, first published in 1800, was considered the “first truly Irish novel.” Back in 1988, when the critic James Cahalan made this claim, the words “first,” “Irish,” ... -
Hauntologies of Domestic Space in Contemporary Women's Writing, 1985-2015: Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, and Anne Enright.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)This dissertation utilises a hauntological understanding of domestic space in order to examine spectral presences in the fiction of three contemporary women writers, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, and Anne Enright, focusing ... -
The evolution of a Lollard book of instruction : a critical edition of material from Trinity College Dublin MS 245
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This is a critical edition of material from Trinity College Dublin MS 245, an early fifteenth-century Lollard instructional anthology. This thesis will be a case study, the aim of which is to reassess the nature of such ... -
The Hibernian Cosmopolis: The Modernities of James Joyce's Ulysses and Don DeLillo's Late Novels
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)This thesis provides a comparative study of James Joyce's Ulysses with Don DeLillo's late novels. This comparison examines economics, time and technology in the work of both writers to create a picture of two different ... -
Beckett's and Murakami's 'Vaguened' Worlds
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)On the first page of the first Happy Days typescript, Samuel Beckett wrote the self-instruction vaguen it : the obscuring and occasional erasure of contextual markers occurs frequently throughout his body of work. It is ... -
'Our Modern Hope': An Analysis of Unorthodox Religion in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and Juan Ramón Jiménez
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)The theological modernist movement articulated many of the issues that literary modernism went on to develop, particularly in relation to religion and the individual s place within it. Theological modernism had a profound ... -
Theatre and Everyday Space: The Case of Tom Murphy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)The thesis investigates the relationship between modern theatre and everyday space, taking contemporary Irish playwright Tom Murphy (1935-2018) as a case study. Dramatising everyday life has been the focus of many playwrights, ... -
Edith
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This project contains two elements, one creative and the other critical. The creative component is a novel in the voice of Edith Somerville as she attempts to convince herself, and others, that the Somerville and Ross ... -
"Between childhood and night" – The role of literature and emotion in the writing of Conor Cruise O'Brien.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This dissertation focuses on a number of major influences on Conor Cruise O'Brien's writing. It consequently explores how various pressures — literary, emotional and political — shaped the imaginary of this major figure ... -
Louis MacNeice and the Writing of the Mind
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This thesis explores the influence of psychology and philosophy of mind on the writing of Louis MacNeice. This challenges current thinking on MacNeice s treatment of selfhood and consciousness, which has previously been ... -
Grief, Emotional Communities and Anglo-French Rivalry in Late-Medieval English and French Literature
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)This thesis provides the first extended study of the representation of grief in late-medieval English and French literature. It examines a range of medieval texts, including the Pearl-poem, Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the ... -
Why Does Mary Weep? Emotion and Gender in Advent lines 164-213 (Advent Lyric VII)
(2021)This article re-reads Lyric VII of the poem Advent, the dialogue of Mary and Joseph. The division of speeches in this lyric has been debated, largely on grounds of the plausibility of the emotions that are apparently ... -
Harry Potter and the Invisible Hand: The Notion of Inevitable Inequality, and 'Niceness' as Moral Action in J.K. Rowling's Neoliberal Fantasy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2021)My thesis explores contemporary children's fantasy literature, and the changing popular perceptions of fundamental moral concepts disseminated for young readerships in such texts. I have chosen as my primary text of survey ... -
"'Foul, strange and unnatural': Poison as a murder weapon in English Renaissance drama"
(2020)Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonorable and unmanly, poison was ... -
The Domestic Noir Fiction of Gillian Flynn
This dissertation's focus is grounded in literary modernism's engagement with psychoanalytic theory and its therapeutic applications in the early 20th century. It examines how the ubiquity of Freud s theories at that time ... -
Modernism Processing Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lawrence, Nin, Joyce
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)This dissertation s focus is grounded in literary modernism s engagement with psychoanalytic theory and its therapeutic applications in the early 20th century. It examines how the ubiquity of Freud s theories at that time ... -
On the uses and disadvantages of history for Ireland : James Joyce and nationalist historiography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)Nationalism saw a tremendous rise in Ireland during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, culminating in the Easter Rising and the formation of the Irish Free State. James Joyce's reading and interpretation ...
