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    • "Perilous movement" : deconstruction and the discourse of conflict 

      Ryan, Jennifer (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, ...

    • Visions of Paradise : the legacy of history of encounter in twentieth-century Caribbean writing 

      Page, Eimear (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)
      This thesis examines the relationship between the work of three twentieth-century Caribbean writers; V. S. Naipaul, Wilson Harris and Derek Walcott, and the legacy of Renaissance accounts of voyages of discovery to the ...

    • Walt Whitman & Edward Dowden : 1869-1886 

      O'Brien, Denis Mark (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)
      This literary history provides an extensive examination of Walt Whitman's reception in Ireland in the 1870s and 1880s, at a time when he was broadly vilified for poor artistry and obscenity in America and Europe. It reveals ...

    • Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds and the construction of an alternative heroic canon : an intertextual analysis 

      Mazullo, Concetta (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)
      The title "At Swim-Two-Birds and the Construction of an Alternative Heroic Canon" refers to O'Brien's intertextual re-reading of traditional Irish texts (early, middle and modem Irish) providing a new image of a changing ...

    • Displaced masculinity : men, women and gender disorientation in contemporary Scottish fiction 

      Jones, Carole (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)
      The subject of this thesis is the representation of gender in Scottish fiction since 1980. In writing of this period the stereotype of the Scottish 'hardman' gives way to portraits of uncertain and ineffectual male characters. ...

    • The grammar of greatness' : self, community, and inspiration in Oliver St. John Gogarty 

      Goodspeed, Andrew (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)
      The first chapter of this thesis is introductory, and proposes a reading of Oliver Gogarty as a self-depicting writer, one who usually employs the form of memoir. It argues that Gogarty does not demonstrate the confessionality ...

    • Allegorical making : Austin Clark, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella 

      Fryatt, Charlotte (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)
      This thesis looks at the work of three poets, Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) and Thomas Kinsella (1928- ), in order both to raise the profile of allegory as a modality at work in twentieth-century ...

    • The considerations of the curious: natural philosophy in early modern Dublin 

      HEMMENS, SUSAN ELIZABETH (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)
      This thesis offers a re-evaluation of the activities and mindset of a community of natural philosophers who described themselves as curious: the members of the Dublin Philosophical Society (1683–1709) (DPS) and their circle ...

    • Before George Eliot : Marian Evans and the mid-Victorian periodical press 

      Dillane, Fionnuala (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)
      Before she became 'George Eliot,' Marian Evans worked for over ten years in the periodical press. This thesis clarifies the nature and the significance of that work from 1846-1857. Dismissed in critical and biographical ...

    • Wallace Stevens in creative conversation : the occasion of long-considered sense 

      Clarke, Edward (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)
      This thesis contends that Stevens is engaged in creative conversation. His poems generate conversations between each other and with earher poets. For Stevens is in conversation with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge ...

    • Battling with the body : physical and allegorical violence in the English morality plays 

      Chambers, Mark (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)
      Battling with the Body: Physical and Allegorical Violence in the English Morality Plays' investigates ways in which medieval allegory finds corporeal expression in the violence of the late medieval stage. Using the ...

    • The Look : ethics and ontology in Herman Melville's The Piazza, Bartleby, the Scrivener, and Benito Cereno 

      Bigagli, Francesca (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)
      This thesis proposes to answer to the question of the Other and the Other as question in Herman Melville's The Piazza (January and February 1856), Bartleby, the Scrivener; a Story of Wall Street (November and December 1853) ...

    • Namelessness from Artaud to Beckett 

      Slote, Samuel (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 ...

    • "Some Safe Way of Dying": A Literary Study of Suicide in 1940s Britain 

      BRADY, WILLIAM JOSEPH (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)
      The hitherto unimaginable challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath were, this thesis contends, mediated through a language and imaginative framework of suicide in British ...

    • The forgotten Piers Plowman : early Tudor Plowman texts 

      Thijms, Annemarie (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2007)
      Methods: This thesis combines textual analysis with research into the historical, religious and literary context of early Tudor Ploughman texts, looking back to the late fourteenth century ploughman literature. In chapter ...

    • John Donne and religious authority in the reformed English church 

      Sweetnam, Mark S. (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 ...

    • Multi city : contemporary literary chronotopes of London 

      Perregaux, Myriam (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 ...

    • Sacerdos Parochialis edited from British Library MS Burney 356 & Exornatorium Curatorum edited from Cambridge Corpus Christi Sp.335.2 

      Pattwell, Niamh (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)
      This thesis is in two parts. Each part contains a critical edition of a late Middle English manual of religious instruction. The first edition is Sacerdos Parochialis and is found in eleven extant manuscripts from the ...

    • Joyce's Mandala 

      O'Shea, Colm (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 ...

    • Narrative authority and truth claims in late medieval and early modern accounts of travel to Jerusalem 

      O'Donnell, Paris (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 ...