Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Issue Date
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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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
‘“Desidero ergo sum (I desire therefore I am)”: Towards a Psychoanalytic Reading of the Advertising of Perfume’, 2016, in Irish Communications Review,
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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 ... -
Seamus Heaney as aesthetic thinker: a study of the prose
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Hannah Lynch and narratives of the Irish literary revival
(Center for Irish Studies (University of St. Thomas), 2016) -
Crocodiles and obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the work of Jamie McKendrick and W.G. Sebald (Pre-published version)
(University of Notre Dame, 2016) -
“The door” stands open: liminal spaces in the later Heaney (Pre-print version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) -
Ecocriticism
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"The soul exceeds its circumstances" : the later poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) -
A case study in language teacher education (Pre-published version)
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Spoken language corpora and pedagogic applications (Pre-published version)
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An evolution of learner grammar: Insights from the English Grammar Profile
(ETI [Execuitive Training Institute] Malta, 2016) -
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) ... -
Jacques Lacan (Pre-published version)
(Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, 2017)Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on April 13, 1901 and died on September 9 1981. He was a French psychoanalyst and philosopher and was a very controversial figure on the French psychoanalytic scene. He was a polymathic ... -
Introduction: Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism: from Galway to Cloyne and beyond (Pre-published version)
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Introduction: Corpus Pragmatics (Pre-published version)
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The pragmatics of interlanguage
(ediPUCRS, 2017)Research in pragmatics has evolved from its beginnings with different theoretical focuses, interfacing with cognition, communication and formal grammar, and thus making its definition quite difficult. Kasper (1996) defines ...