English Language and Literature (Theses): Recent submissions
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Reimagining Tolkien: a post-colonial perspective on the Lord of the Rings
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)This thesis analyses J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings from a post-colonial perspective. An Oxford don and philologist, who was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa but spent the majority of his life in Britain, Tolkien ... -
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 ... -
Irish Female Gothic Fiction: A Study of the Fiction of Regina Maria Roche and Sydney Owenson
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)The purpose of this study is to identify whether some of Sydney Owenson’s and Regina Maria Roche’s work should be considered as examples of Irish Female Gothic. Through a close study of four novels by Owenson and Roche, I ... -
Towards the Undecidable: A Reading of the Texts of James Joyce, Sean O'Casey and Paul Howard through the Deconstructive lens of Jacques Derrida
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)This thesis provides a comparative and contrastive perspective on the works of James Joyce, Sean O‘Casey and Paul Howard, with particular thematic focus on their portrayals of Dublin. Joyce provided a vision of Dublin in ... -
An Irish feminist chick lit? Examining the social and cultural contexts of Marian Keyes’ work
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)This thesis will present a study of the work of Irish writer Marian Keyes in terms of her texts, and the cultural context of these texts. The nature of chick lit as a formulaic genre will be examined, and the ability of ...