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More than meets the eye : truth in the eighteenth-century novel
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)In the eighteenth century it was commonly believed that Britain was experiencing a servant crisis. In consequence of the changing nature of the master-servant relationship which was shifting from a patriarchal style to ... -
Multi city : contemporary literary chronotopes of London
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)The general subject of this study is the representation of London in contemporary British literature. In particular, it asks whether literary chronotopes of London participate in the emergence of a dialogic city. In order ... -
Music in the glen : traveller culture and song
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis explores the cultural significance of music to Travellers, as described in their own words. By examining the songs included in Traveller memoirs, it aims to reflect cultural practices and concerns which are ... -
Namelessness from Artaud to Beckett
(Brill, 2019)Abstract After a period of electroshock therapy, Antonin Artaud claimed to have been able to regain his name and sense of self. The dehiscence of name and identification is reprised in Artaud’s final work, the radio ... -
Narcissism in the fiction of John Banville
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis concerns narcissism in the work of the novelist John Banville. By examining it as both a psychological characteristic of Banville’s narrators and as a defining quality of the narratives they create, it aims to ... -
Narrative authority and truth claims in late medieval and early modern accounts of travel to Jerusalem
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis explores continuity and change in the construction of authority and truth claims in accounts of travel to Jerusalem from 1432 to 1632. It takes as its main materials manuscript or printed narratives written ... -
Narratives of difference : critical (re-)assessment of contemporary Troubles novels
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This dissertation examines the concept of difference as portrayed in contemporary Troubles novels and explores how it affects the sense of belonging to the contested space of Northern Ireland. It analyses a cross-section ... -
National Identity and Satire
(Oxford University Press, 2019)The eighteenth century was a period when ambitious Irish dramatists, particularly those based in London, deployed satire as a means of publicly displaying Irish improvement and Enlightenment. The Stage Irishman evolved ... -
'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 ... -
Nostalgias of innocence and guilt : the post-Cold War reflections of John Updike and Don DeLillo
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)This thesis examines the post-Cold War work of the American novelists John Updike and Don DeLillo, paying particular attention to the manifestations and treatment of nostalgia in these texts. Focussing primarily on the ... -
'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 ... -
(Not) Everything ends in tears : individuals, communities, and peacemaking in the Íslendingasögur
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2017)The íslendingasögur, or Icelandic family sagas, represent a deeply introspective cultural endeavour, the exploration of a nation of strong-willed, independent, and occasionally destructive men and women as they attempted ... -
Notorious amateurism : professionalism and patronage in Wyndham Lewis's art-criticism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)It is the objective of this thesis to trace in the art-criticism of Wyndham Lewis a trajectory of a certain model of professionalisation. In my introduction I trace a crucial fault-line along which the discourse of artistic ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Open Minds and Open Learning in the 'Cosmopolitan' Internet
(2012)The promise of technology, in particular of the internet, was that access to information would become demography blind. But for all of the successes the global web of information has demonstrated to us, has it really ... -
Orientations: the positions and aesthetics of contemporary migrant fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)Touching on the work of David Dabydeen, Caryl Phillips, Fred D’Aguiar, Jamaica Kincaid, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi I will examine, in this thesis, the political, aesthetic and historical orientation ... -
Others had the making of me : the cultural construction of serial murder
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis examines the framing devices which are used to interpret serial murder and their role in shaping our understanding of this most disturbing subject. Each chapter considers a period of writing which, I have argued, ... -
'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 ... -
"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, ...
