Browsing by Subject "Irish Studies"

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    • Beckett's and Murakami's 'Vaguened' Worlds 

      Byrne Keane, Alicia Paula (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)
      On the first page of the first Happy Days typescript, Samuel Beckett wrote the self-instruction vaguen it : the obscuring and occasional erasure of contextual markers occurs frequently throughout his body of work. It is ...

    • The Road to Calvary: Tracing the Diachronic Instability in Representations of the Cleric in Modern Irish Film 

      Martin, Jacob Dennis (Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2023)
      This thesis argues for the diachronic contingency of the priest in modern Irish cinema. This study utilises Richard Kearney?s account of `incarnate? and `excarnate? subjectivity to construct an analogous model for analysing ...

    • Unsettling Le Fanu: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Irish Settler Writing 

      DEMPSEY, AOIFE MARY (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 ...

    • "Welcome to the Good Life!" Neoliberalism(s) and Contemporary Irish Women's Short Fiction 

      Darling, Orlaith Marie (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)
      This thesis examines the ways in which neoliberalism as a pervasive economic, political, and cultural discourse is represented, recreated, and subverted in contemporary short fiction by Claire Keegan, Nicole Flattery, Lucy ...