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The Postcolonial Gothic: Towards an Exploration of this Theory through Selective Readings of John Banville’s Kepler and Ghosts and Mary Morrissy’s Mother of Pearl.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)
The title of this thesis points to an ongoing dialogue between the Gothic and the postcolonial within the space of the novel. In reality however there are a variety of other exchanges that continually intersect with the ...
"The whole man": a discussion of the influence of aspects of the occult and of German philosophy on Yeats’s dramatic theory and performance
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)
This thesis will attempt to set out the core elements of the dramatic theory of William
Butler Yeats. He had worked on this for many years, attempting to create a theatre in
which unity of Image on stage would lead to a ...
Media and discourse analysis
(Routledge, 2011)
Competencies explored and exposed: Grammar, lexis, communication and the notion of levels
(Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2012)
From dolls to demons: exploring categorisations of the female figure in Gothic literature through a selection of nineteenth and twentieth century texts
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)
This thesis will examine various representations of female agency and identity in both classic
and contemporary selected Gothic texts. It will use feminist, psychoanalytic and selected
aspects of literary theory in order ...
‘Sunk past its gleam in the meal bin’: the kitchen as source in the poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-print version)
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2018)
This article will examine the use of food, and especially food as cooked in a kitchen, as a symbolic trope in the writing of Seamus Heaney. It will address the kitchen as a locus amoenis of comfort, warmth and positivity ...
Investigating higher education seminar talk
(Novitas-ROYAL, 2010)
In this paper, we consider how a combined corpus linguistics and conversation analysis methodology can
reveal new insights into the relationship between interaction patterns, language use, and learning. The context of ...
The English grammar profile of learner competence: Methodology and key findings
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017)
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001a) is an established benchmark for language competence (Jones & Saville 2009). It comprises six levels of competence from A1 (lowest) ...
Introduction: "The soul exceeds its circumstances": the later poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016)