English: Recent submissions

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    • Music in the glen : traveller culture and song 

      Mann, Noelle (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 ...

    • Unsettling belongings : settler colonialism in the selected works of Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen 

      Kuster, Megan E. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)
      This thesis presents a comparative reading of place in selected works by Jean Rhys and Elizabeth Bowen in the context of settler colonialism. In arguing that Anglo- Irish and Creole identities were formed out of the dynamics ...

    • Humanism and the early modern essay 

      Jones, Darrell (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, ...

    • Behind their eyes : identity in the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim 

      Hand, Meadhbh (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)
      The introduction to this study outlines the theoretical framework for comparing the work of Li-Young Lee and Suji Kwock Kim. Using Walter Mignolo's theories about "border thinking," which he outlined in Local Histories/Global ...

    • Golden apples of the monkey house : a post-Jungian interpretation of myth in the short stories of Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury 

      Ellerhoff, Steven Gronert (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)
      [exerpt from page 8] This dissertation is cast with hope of drawing scholarly attention to these writers' short fiction [Vonnegut and Bradbury], arguing in the affirmative that there is plenty to be found in these critically ...

    • Proximate foreigners : England and its neighbors in the history plays of the 1590s 

      De Young, Erin Marie (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)
      The central claim of this thesis is that the correlation between the rise history play genre in the 1590s, concerns about national identity, and emerging disputes over expansion collided in the political/cultural views of ...

    • To Arms! : colonial authors and the fiction of invasion 1890-1914 

      Bulfin, Ailise (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)
      In 1909 P. G. Wodehouse penned a comic novella The Swoop! which saw Britain saved from the simultaneous invasion of nine foreign armies by a boy scout named Clarence Chugwater. Wodehouse’s ludicrous plot, which featured ...

    • Political visions : George Russell, 1913-1930 

      Allen, Nicholas George (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)
      George Russell, poet and author, was a contemporary of W. B. Yeats and a figure central to the Irish Literary Revival. My thesis concentrates on his editorship of two journals, the Irish Homestead and the Irish Statesman, ...

    • Europe is the greatest thing in North America : Delmore Schwartz's 'International Consciousness' 

      Runchman, Alexander Herbert (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)
      My introduction considers the way in which Schwartz interprets the American Dream in a seminal essay about Ernest Hemingway, suggesting this as a framework within which to consider Schwartz’s work in general. I then offer ...

    • Blood, thunder and sudden death : the science and fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs 

      Reid, Conor Edward (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)
      In a letter to his editor in 1919, American author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wondered whether he was "going to be known as Edgar Rice Burroughs the author or Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan of the Apes" (Letter ...

    • The Menstruous-Monstrous : female blood in horror 

      Parsons, Maria (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)
      This thesis examines the subject of menstrual blood in gothic and horror literature and film. It aims to map and locate negative constructions and representations of the menstrual body within the genre while also pointing ...

    • Narcissism in the fiction of John Banville 

      O'Connell, Mark (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 ...

    • They said she was mad' : insanity in the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 

      Cavalli, Valeria Angela (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)
      This thesis contextualises the work of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu in nineteenth-century debates on insanity. Le Fanu lived at a time when psychiatry was establishing itself as a new branch of medicine, and its advances, ...

    • Space, place and masculinity in the work of Jane Austen 

      Matthews, Margaret (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)
      This thesis examines masculinity in the work of Jane Austen through the lens of space and place. Austen’s work, in academia as well as the public mind, is associated with one space in particular: England. This association ...

    • "It's got something to do with love" : the process and philosophy of communication in the work of David Foster Wallace 

      Hayes-Brady, Clare (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 ...

    • A topoanalytical reading of landscapes in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence (1965-1977) 

      Carroll, Jane Suzanne (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)
      In setting out to understand the construction and function of landscapes in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence, I realised that Cooper’s landscapes were not unique but confonned to a series of tropes or paradigms ...

    • Good enough to eat : a study of cannibalism in literature and film in the twentieth century 

      Brown, Jennifer (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)
      This thesis is an examination of the cannibal figure in 19th and 20th century literature and film. The cannibal transgresses boundaries of normality and morality and is thus considered Other. As a transgressor of boundaries, ...

    • Vindictive justice and participatory revenge : English revenge tragedy's engagement with early modern law 

      Dunne, Derek (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)
      This thesis demonstrates revenge tragedy's ongoing engagement with early modern law in its myriad forms during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. I begin by showing in the introduction the relevance of an ...

    • Stages of madness : representations of madness in Shakespeare's Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth 

      Power, Andrew J. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)
      This thesis is divided in six chapters that are grouped in pairs. The first, third, and fifth chapters deal with a single theoretical area of influence on the perception of madness in Shakespeare’s time and provide contextual ...

    • Maculate conceptions : Irish film and drama of the 1930s 

      Pine, Emilie (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 ...