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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 ... -
Laying in the Dark: The Literary Night in Nineteenth-Century American Prose
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)This thesis examines nineteenth-century American prose via the lens of night studies, to demonstrate how the literary night was used to construct and challenge issues of gender and race in the United States. It focuses ... -
The Legends of the Lady: Finding Truth Through Transformation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis examines the concepts and roles of disability, disfigurement, sovereignty, and ageism in medieval Irish and English Loathly Lady texts, as well as select texts that contain disabled and disfigured characters. ... -
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 ... -
Lolita and the Mythologies of Femininity
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Looking at Novels: Typography, Punctuation, & Spelling in Some Contemporary Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2020)Looking at Novels: Typography, Punctuation, & Spelling in Some Contemporary Fiction by Francis Leahy Abstract This is a study of the visual appearance of some contemporary novels. The thesis uses an interdisciplinary ... -
Louis MacNeice : radio, poetry and the aural imagination
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The aim of this thesis is to give serious consideration to the relatively neglected radio dramas and features of Louis MacNeice, showing how they were an imaginative and innovative development of what was at the time an ... -
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 ... -
Maculate conceptions : Irish film and drama of the 1930s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)In the 1930s Ireland grasped the opportunity to define itself as a modern free state and the decade is thus one of the most dynamic in Ireland’s history since Independence. Within the space of ten years, Fianna Fail came ... -
Managing Uncertainty in the Humanities: Digital and Analogue Approaches
(ACM, 2018)This paper takes a high-level view of both the sources and status of uncertainty in humanities research and the attributes a digital system would ideally have. It draws upon both the experience of a number of digital ...
