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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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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)
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 ...
An examination of female characterisation in a selection of the novels and short stories of William Trevor through the lens of Simone de Beauvoir
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
This thesis aims to examine female characterisation in a selection of William Trevor’s novels and short stories. The core argument in this thesis will be to demonstrate that Trevor, in his portrayal of women, presents a ...