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How does rhetoric of drama shed light on truth and reason in Hamlet?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis will examine how speech can be used or abused once disembedded from the Judaeo/Christian ontological framework which normally sustained and validated it. Chapter one looks at speech being used to express, ... -
'how like death they are!': Death and Childhood in the Novels of Charles Dickens
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis studies the intersection between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourses on childhood and Victorian attitudes towards death in the moribund child of Charles Dickens's novels. By the nineteenth century, ... -
Humanism and the early modern essay
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This is a thesis about the emergence, establishment, and development of the early modern essay and the relationships of those processes to various forms of humanism. The essay is considered both as a conceptual entity, ... -
I carpenter a space for the thing I am given : influence and the consciousness of space in Emily Dickenson, H. D. and Sylvia Plath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)The introduction indicates the context from which my examination of the continuities between Emily Dickinson, H.D., and Sylvia Plath arose; it does so by stating the principal areas of difference between this thesis and ... -
'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 ... -
Illustrations from the Wellcome Library William Winstanley's pestilential poesies in "The Christians refuge: or heavenly antidotes against the plague in this time of generall contagion to which is added the charitable physician (1665)"
(PubMed Central, 2011)During the Great Plague of London (1665), William Winstanley veered from his better known roles as arbiter of success and failure in his works of biography or as a comic author under the pseudonym Poor Robin, and instead ... -
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 ... -
Imaginary bodies : legal fictions and rhetorical tropes in early modern English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis is an investigation of the development and significance of the early modem English use of the term “body politic”, both as a rhetorical trope and as a legal term of art. Unlike previous scholarly work on the ... -
Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War
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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. ... -
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 ... -
Introduction to European Women in Early Modern
(2017)Introduction to the Special Issue of EMLS, entitled "European Women in Early Modern English Drama". -
Irish Children's Literature and the Poetics of Memory, 1892-2016
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis explores the recurring patterns of Irish mythological narratives that influence literature produced for children in Ireland following the Celtic Revival and into the twenty-first century. It argues that these ... -
The Irish Masque at Court (1613)
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Irish writers and the British periodical press 1880-1900
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This project assesses the extent and significance of Irish contributions to the British periodical press of the 1880s and 1890s. It examines the cultural and historical context of some fifteen writers, situating them in a ... -
"It's got something to do with love" : the process and philosophy of communication in the work of David Foster Wallace
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2011)Since David Foster Wallace’s death in 2008, a group of interested scholars has begun to emerge in the US and across Europe. This study forms part of that growing cluster of scholarship. It is the central contention of this ... -
James Joyce's Philosophical Formation: A Secularisation of Being
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis draws on radical philology, which focuses on the analysis of textual sources, to examine the exogenesis of James Joyce's early aesthetics, which is to say its development as a result of inter-textual echoes and ... -
James Joyce, music and memory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)This thesis, James Joyce, Music and Memory, explores the connection between music and Irish cultural memory in Joyce’s works from Chamber Music to the “pure music” of Finnegans Wake. Overall, it shows that Joyce’s ongoing ... -
John Donne and religious authority in the reformed English church
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)This thesis examines the place of religious authority in the thought of John Donne. The methodology employed is a historically contextualised close reading of Donne's works, with particular focus on the sermons. This reading ... -
Joyce's Mandala
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)The term "mandala" is a Sanskrit word which can be translated as meaning "sacred circle". The "circle" in this instance typically encloses a highly structured icon which represents a microcosm of the universe and/or ...