Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Title
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Like the wise virgins and all that jazz’ – using a corpus to examine vague language and shared knowledge
(Language and Computers, 2004)This paper will use a corpus to explore vague categorisation (e.g. prostitutes, sailors and the like) in a specific context where the participants are strangers, but where they share the same socio-cultural reference points ... -
The Limerick corpus of Irish English: design, description and application
(Irish Association for applied Linguistics, 2004)This paper describes an on-going corpus development and application project at the Mary Immaculate College and the University of Limerick, Ireland. The Limerick Corpus of Irish English is a one-million word corpus of ... -
"Listen to the Leaves": Derek Mahon's Evolving Ecologies
(Wayne State University Press, 2016)“New York Time,” previously “The Hudson Letter” (1996), opens in “Winter,” and the poetic speaker is awoken amid snow and ice in New York City to the combined but competing strains of “the first bird and the first garbage ... -
A literary and cultural analysis of the mistreatment of women portrayed in the works of female Irish writers and critical social events in Ireland 1984-2022
(2023-10-25)This thesis examines the treatment of women in Irish society through a cultural and literary approach. The analysis includes a variety of literature dating from 1936 to 2015. The authors discussed are all female: Teresa ... -
A literary theoretical exploration of silenced African women from psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives
(2022-04-01)The study explores the gender relationship in the three English speaking regions of Sub Saharan Africa through three novels: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga; Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; and Parched ... -
Looking out for love and all the rest of it: vague category markers as shared social space (Pre-published version)
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Lost and found in the archives: Hannah Lynch and Dimitrios Vikélas Dublin, Athens, Paris: literary crossings and collaborations (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2023-11)This essay illuminates a late nineteenth-century literary connection between Ireland and Greece, also revealing hitherto unexplored layers of the vibrant fin-de-siecle salon cultures in Paris and related literary and ... -
A lot done, more to do – Barthes, Bertie and the facteur poujade
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The Media
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Media and discourse analysis
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Messianism or Messianicity?: Remembering Revolution and the Shaping of Irish Nationalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011) -
Mobile technology and the actuvirtuali artifactual subject
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Modernity and postmodernity in a Franco-Irish context (Pre-published version)
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More than a language … no more of a Language’: Merriman, Heaney and the Metamorphoses of Translation
(Irish University Review, 2005)This essay examines transformative force of translation, by reading Merriman through the refractive lens of Seamus Heaney’s The Midnight Verdict, the juxtaposition of Merriman’s text with that of classical tragedy, itself ... -
A Nation Once Again Towards an Epistemology of the Republican Imaginaire
(University College Dublin Press, 2003)The epistemological structure of Irish republican ideology is examined through the theoretical perspective of Jacques Lacan. This paper extrapolates this position into a societal and group matrix. The Lacanian imaginary ... -
Negotiating multimodality in graphic narratives :an exploration of stream of consciousness techniques in Batman: The dark knight returns; Watchmen; and From hell
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This thesis will address the narratological strategies that the graphic novels Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and From Hell employ in order to document the manner in which a stream of consciousness can be ... -
Negotiating the self – the spectral mobile subject (Pre-published version)
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'No longer afraid’ Michael Hartnett’s poems to younger women
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North: The Politics of Plurality
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 1999)This essay will offer a theoretical reading both of North, and its critics; it will also analyse the criticisms of North in terms of its speaking with the voice of the tribe. I hope to demonstrate that, in fact, what is ... -
Once upon an ideology: exploring the ideologies and identities of female figures through a selection of classic and contemporary fairy tales
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis examines the ideologies and identities of women in selected traditional and contemporary fairy tales. It does this by utilising existing folklore theory but also by drawing on various literary theory theoretical ...