Browsing School of English by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin."
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A lesson in presents : social change in the writing of Brendan Kennelly, 1980-2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores the relationship between form in the writing of Irish poet Brendan Kennelly and social change in Ireland between 1980 and 2000. Using the ideas of postmodern theorists including Jean-Frangois Lyotard, ... -
And God seith...': representations of divine speech and personal relationship to God in Middle English literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis aims to analyse the diegetic representation of divine discourse, in particular, the reported speech of God in Middle English literature. It focuses on the narratorial stance of key texts towards such representations ... -
Consider the editor : textual process in the fiction of Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This thesis examines the contribution of Gordon Lish and Michael Pietsch to key works of Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace, respectively. The Prologue situates the two authors in a historical framework, considering ... -
Creation and sub-creation : divine and human authorship in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)J.R.R. Tolkien spent the greater part of his adult life constructing an imaginary world; its cosmology, history, legends, and languages. He described this process as 'sub-creation', a definition embodying the connection ... -
Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged ... -
Daniel Defoe and the representation of personal identity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores Daniel Defoe's treatment of the concept of personal identity as a literary construction and as a social fiction. An active contributor to the burgeoning print market of early eighteenthcentury England, ... -
Departures : the Abbey Theatre on international stages 1975-2005
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis and the included production history of Abbey Theatre tours form part of a broader project under the aegis of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora, The Internationalisation of Irish Drama, 1975-2005. This project ... -
Escaping her biography : Maeve Brennan's 'Nomadic Consciousness'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)The introduction of the thesis makes clear the vital need for this study and explains how its methodology privileges theoretical positions over biographical narratives as it centres on close readings of some of Brennan's ... -
'Exogamous Brides' : representations of inter-faith relationships in Irish fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This study offers a comprehensive assessment of how a broad range of Irish novelists depicted mixed marriages or inter-faith relationships from the 1860s to the 1960s, and argues that heterogeneous depictions of these ... -
Germany, Ireland and the Second World War in the works of Christabel Bielenberg, Francis Stuart and Hugo Hamilton
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2013)Memory has become a focal point of research across several disciplines, including Irish studies. What remains unacknowledged, however, are the roots of memory's ascendancy in the worldwide engagement with the victims of ... -
'Identity through talk' : personal narrative and social practice in Anglo-Saxon literature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This study is an analysis of a selection of first-person literary narratives written in pre- Conquest England. Primary texts have been chosen from the corpus of Old English poetry and Anglo-Latin colloquy tradition, with ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'Manhattan weighed on his eyelid' : reading Ted Hughes in the context of four American writers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)The introduction to this thesis documents and establishes Ted Hughes' growing interest in American writing while at Cambridge and suggests that Hughes' engagement with American writing from this point in his career onwards ... -
Prompting prudence : early modern revenge drama and the memory-training tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis examines the methods by whieh revenge playwrights direct playgoer attention to significant moments in their plays. My contention is that many of the devices employed by these playwrights in their dramaturgical ... -
The walking text : narrativised identities in the work of Philip Roth
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)The introduction to this thesis makes clear the need for a reconsideration of Roth's representation of self-identity through an examination of how selfhood and self identity are represented and experienced through narrative. ... -
The church without the church : desert orthodoxy in Flannery O'Connor's Dear Old Dirty Southland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2011)In the nearly fifty years since her death, the critical study of the life and work of Mary Flannery O'Connor has been conventionally delimited to two critical parameters: the greater "South" and the Church of Rome. My ... -
The hermeneutics of crisis : evangelicals, apocalypse and conflict in Northern Ireland Troubles
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)Apocalyptic eschatology sets us questions that lead us into the heart of the relationship between ideas and their expression in culture. The significance of apocalyptic eschatology becomes apparent upon a brief consideration ... -
The Image of Both Churches' : the uses of convention in Tudor polemical literature, 1528-1563
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis offers a literary analysis of mid-Tudor polemics, texts chiefly valued by historians in the field of Reformation studies. It focuses on the metaphors and imagery which polemicists use to put across their ...