Browsing School of English by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin."

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    • The war is in words and the wood is the world : an ecocritical reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 

      Lacivita, Alison (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)
      "The war is in worlds and the wood is the world': An Ecocritical Reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake'' is the first work to attempt a comprehensive ecocritical reading of any of James Joyce's texts. This thesis approaches ...

    • William Allingham in his contexts 

      Mooney, Wendy (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)
      This thesis examines the work of William Allingham within its social, cultural and historical contexts in order to clarify the true influences behind the Donegal poet's poems and ballads and the driving force behind his ...

    • Working-class Dublin in fiction and plays, 1954-2004 

      Mac Piarais, Micheál (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)
      This thesis explores the depiction of working-class Dublin in fiction and plays from 1954 to 2004. It examines how proletarian identity is depicted in this body of writing, the common themes and ideas it sustains, and what ...