English: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Randall Jarrell, canonicity, multiplicity, travesty : the apocalyptic margins of the still, human center
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)The thesis finds that Randall Jarrell's writing fails to meet the expectations of the American canon and travesties the aesthetic conventions of American literary modernism. It is often kitsch or melodramatic, it can be ... -
Yeats's Re-Enchanted Nature
(2018)[From the introductory paragraphs] [...] Yeats’s image of post-Enlightenment mankind as “passive” before nature hints at his interest in magic and mysticism, as well as his desire to search in and through nature and its ... -
Soft Skills in Hard Places: the changing face of DH training in European research infrastructures
(2017)[Extract from the Introduction] Research Infrastructures are becoming an increasingly distinct presence in the landscape of the digital humanities, creating unique research ecosystems that interact with, but remain ... -
A variation of voices : Frank O'Connor, 1922-1939
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)Frank O'Connor - short-story writer, poet, playwright, novelist and literary critic - filled an important role in the cultural debates of mid-twentieth-century Ireland. My thesis concentrates on his more critically neglected ... -
The Irish landscape in Somerville and Ross's fiction and illustrations, 1890-1915
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)As inheritors of an Anglo-Irish Protestant tradition who wrote in the midst of a vibrant consumer culture of the fin-de-siecle, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross developed their satirical fictions to reflect central ambiguities ... -
Echoes traveling off from the center : contemporary poetic engagements with the poetry of Sylvia Plath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2008)The introduction of the thesis makes clear the vital need for this study and explains how its methodology privileges poetic practice rather than critical narratives as it centres on close readings of a range of poems by ... -
Tradition and ephemerality : suburban voices in Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This thesis is a work of literary critique. It attempts to explore the significance of the concepts of tradition and ephemerality within the work of Dermot Bolger and Roddy Doyle. This is done not only on the level of ... -
The ironic conscience : a study of the first extended phase of Derek Mahon's poetry - from Night-Crossing (1968) to Antarctica (1985)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis reappraises the first extended phase of Mahon’s early poetry, from Night- Crossing (1968) to Antarctica (1985), in the light of the concept of the ironic conscience. It begins by outlining an initial definition ... -
Some explanation of this hard, real life : the problem of evil in mid-Victorian literature and culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)[Exerpt from the final paragraph of the introduction, page 65] Likewise, the novels considered in the chapters that follow are not bound by a rationalist imperative, but articulate their responses to evil in creative and ... -
Black Gay Male Identity in the African Diaspora
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This study seeks to fill this gap. By interrogating new or overlooked characterizations of positive black gay male identity, it seeks to address theorizations of black identity as it relates to black gay male identity. -
(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 ... -
T. H. White: A Critical Biography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis is a critical biography of the author T. H. White. My purpose is to define the influences on his work throughout his life and set him in the historical and cultural context of the period from the 1930s through ... -
Unsettling Le Fanu: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Irish Settler Writing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis argues that the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) can be read as a form of settler writing. Using settler theory as a reading strategy in the analysis of Le Fanu’s short fiction, this thesis argues ... -
“She stimulates us to supply what is not there”: Expanding Jane Austen’s World Through Fandom
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis aims to explore Jane Austen?s lively afterlife in popular culture through an exploration of fanfiction inspired by her most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice (1813). The thesis combines analysis of online ... -
Beckett and French, 1906-1946: A Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis constitutes a study of Samuel Beckett and French during the years 1906-1946, covering that period from his earliest exposure to the French language up to the moment of his post-War linguistic turn . Adopting ... -
Puritan responses to antinomianism in the context of reformed covenant theology: 1630-1696
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)This thesis analyzes the way in which six seventeenth-century puritans from both sides of the Atlantic responded to antinomians—those accused of rejecting divine law—and the methods these six puritans used in their responses. ... -
Typography and Narrative Voice in Children's Literature: Relationships, Interactions, and Symbiosis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis explores the relationship between typography and narrative voice in children’s literature. Substantial attention has been paid in the past to the word/image interaction in children’s books due to their multimodal ...
