Department of English Language and Literature: Recent submissions
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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
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012) -
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 ... -
A Vagabond's Scrutiny: Hannah Lynch in Europe
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A Forgotten Franco-Irish Literary Network: Hannah Lynch, Arvède Barine and Salon Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
(Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011)This paper is an exploration of Irish émigré author Hannah Lynch ( 1859- 1904), her parti cipation in the salon culture of the Parisian belle époque, and the impact of these social and lite rary networks on her career. ... -
Versions and Palimpsests: Rebecca West’s The Sentinel, Adela, and The Judge
(University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses, 2006) -
Introduction: The Sentinel, An Incomplete Early Novel by Rebecca West
(Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre University of Oxford., 2002) -
Passages in Time Traversed, Passages in Text Unwritten: A Theoretical Approach to Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
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A corpus of Irish English – Past, present, future
(Irish Association for applied Linguistics, 1999)To date, no corpus of Irish English exists. Most previous research has focused on the syntactic and phonological peculiarities of Irish English showing how it differs from standard British English, and in the same way, ... -
Analyzing university spoken interaction: a corpus linguistics/conversation analysis approach
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2011)In this article, we consider how corpus linguistics (CL) and conversation analysis (CA) can be used together to provide enhanced descriptions of spoken interaction in the context of small group teaching in higher education. ... -
Using a corpus to look at variational pragmatics: response tokens in British and Irish discourse
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Towards a farewell: A brief life
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'Tore down a la Rimbaud': Brendan Kennelly and the French connection
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Figuring Phantasmagoria: The Tradition of the Fantastic in Irish Modernism.
(Used by permission © Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus(CISA), Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies(DUCIS), Nordic Irish Studies Network(NISN)., 2011) -
Gothic ‘Un-representations’ of Terror in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse -5.
(Binghamton University, 2007) -
Speaking of Silence: Comments from an Irish Studies Perspective.
(Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus(CISA), Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies(DUCIS), Nordic Irish Studies Network(NISN)., 2012) -
The Sounds of Silence: Samuel Becketts's Haunted Modernism.
(Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus(CISA), Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies(DUCIS), Nordic Irish Studies Network(NISN)., 2012)