Department of English Language and Literature: Recent submissions
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Let Ireland weep: poetry of loss in the First World War
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Deconstructive journalism: the influences of Jacques Derrida and Edward Said on the thought and writing of Robert Fisk
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014) -
What lies beneath: an exploration of the unseen in John B. Keane's The field
(2016)John B. Keane remains a hugely popular dramatist, his plays continue to fill theatres to this day, and many of his characters have transcended from the stage and reside in common cultural consciousness. This dissertation ... -
Fanon's one big idea: Ireland and postcolonial studies
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2004)Postcolonial theory has been, and remains, one of the dominant modes of literary and cultural criticism within the broader discourse of Irish Studies. This thesis will provide a summary theoretical interrogation of the ... -
The gravity of oppositions: the life and art of Thomas Hardy
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)A narrative derived from the life and work of a writer can offer deeper insight than looking at his work as a separate study. To concentrate biographically on the superficial details of Hardy’s life and times without ... -
Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast: A socio-pragmatic analysis of Irish settled and Traveller family discourse
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)The present study utilises an integrative theoretical approach that combines variational pragmatics and community of practice to examine two corpora representing spoken language collected in the home/family environment: ... -
A shabby old couple: Seamus Heaney's ekphrastic imperative (Pre-published version)
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Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Cinematic Form in Michael Haneke’s "Hidden" and Alan Gilsenan’s "Zulu 9"
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)This essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9. These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration, postcolonial ... -
Rites of Passage: Migrancy and the Liminality in Colum McCann’s "Songdogs" and "This Side of Brightness"
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2008)This article deals with two novels by the Irish writer Colum McCann: Songdogs and This Side of Brightness. Reading the narratives of both texts through the work of anthropologist Victor Turner, the essay reveals how ... -
Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2010)This article is a response to Bill Ashcroft’s ‘Critical Utopias’, which appeared in this journal in 2007. In his earlier piece, Ashcroft offered a summary genealogy of the historical and literary historical links between ... -
Dantean returns in the works of Thomas Stearns Eliot, Eugenio Montale, and Seamus Heaney
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This project analyzes Dante’s influence on the poetry of Thomas Stearns Eliot, Eugenio Montale, and Seamus Heaney. A comparative reading of the poetry and criticism of the four authors will display that Dante’s presence ... -
Resurrection: the return of the Gothic home in contemporary Irish art (1990-2015)
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis investigates the resurrection of the Gothic home as a powerful symbol in contemporary Irish fine art practice from 1990 to 2015, figuring large in the work of important Irish artists Aideen Barry, Alice Maher, ... -
The confluence of culture,conflict and commitment in selected modern Palestinian poetry 1948 to 1993: a postcolonial perspective
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)This thesis locates Palestinian poetry (in English translation) in the context of postcolonial literature, a perspective from which Arabic literature is not generally viewed. The valence of this perspective will be ... -
"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 ... -
"The distant skin": a deconstructive analysis of women and polysemic touch in the writing of John McGahern and Anne Enright
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This thesis, by providing a deconstructive reading of the work of John McGahern and Anne Enright, elucidates the way in which the place, position and representation of women in modern Irish society is profoundly affected ... -
The conflict between social identity and religious identity in the work of Jack Kerouac
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Haruki Murakami's postmodern condition: representing the postmodern in the translated novel
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)This thesis offers a close reading of some of the texts of Haruki Murakami through a postmodern lens, offering a new perspective on how the Japanese writer corroborates Lyotard’s notion of the ‘Postmodern Condition’ and ...