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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 ...
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 ...
Introduction: "The soul exceeds its circumstances": the later poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016)
'The Boat has Moved': The Catholic Church, Conflations and the Need for Critique
(Columba Press, 2011)
"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 ...