Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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Writers reading the American press: Responsive connections between Djuna Barnes, Edith Wharton, and Gertrude Stein
(NUI Galway, 2022-11-22)Djuna Barnes, Edith Wharton, and Gertrude Stein are examined as responsive critics of gender narratives in the public sphere of American print. Navigating the evolving prominence of the New Woman, so-called White Slave, ... -
Writing through the trauma of her past: Patterns of repression and a fragmented sense of self in the literature of Christa Wolf
(2017-09-08)This project aims to offer a re-evaluation of the literature of Christa Wolf and change the focus of the questions posed in relation to her literary legacy. Shifting the focus away from a denouncement of her character and ... -
Writing water justice in the twenty-first century: Environmental novels, neoliberalism, and water politics
(NUI Galway, 2023-03-30)This thesis poses drought as a literary problem. It analyses seven different twenty first-century novels which respond to drought events as a way of articulating culturally and historically specific anxieties surrounding ... -
The X Factor(s): New antibiotic resistance mechanisms in community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(2017-03-31)Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains typically express low-level heterogeneous (HeR) resistance from which high-level homogeneously resistant (HoR) mutants can be isolated following oxacillin exposure. ... -
Xenophon and the ancient Greek cavalry horse: an equestrian perspective
(2015-11-30)The origins of this thesis lie in my appreciation, because of my own equestrian background, of Xenophon’s Art of Horsemanship and the Cavalry Commander. As the research progressed, I was surprised that classical scholars ... -
Yes, and: Implementation of access to cultural materials for persons with disabilities
(NUI Galway, 2023-01-19)This thesis examines the right to access culture for persons with disabilities and proposes a new approach to implementing that right. Part I lays out where this right can be found and why it is so important. It ... -
"You Mean We're Not Real People?": A semiotic and sociolinguistic perspective on the transposition of fictive Dialogue in the Spanish Translations of John Updike's "Rabbit" books
(2015-01-29)Despite the vast amount of research on translation in recent decades, the issue of fictive dialogue has yet to gain prominence in the field. Viewed from a monolingual perspective, dialogue is already problematic in that ... -
Young people's attitudes toward the police in Ireland. A mixed methods study
(2013-10-30)The aim of this research was to address outstanding empirical issues in the attitudes to police literature by developing and testing a theoretical model of the factors that influence young people's attitudes toward the ... -
Zambian Perspectives: A participatory contextualisation of Youth Civic Engagement (YCE) from both youth and adult Zambian perspectives
(2012-10-26)In the contemporary adult centered world, global policy has placed young people at the centre of the civic engagement debate. A universal definition of youth civic engagement (YCE) is lacking. The current YCE literature ... -
Zhu reduction theory for vertex operator algebras on Riemann surfaces
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-21)In this thesis we first develop a recursive relation for $n$-point functions for Vertex Operator Super Algebras (VOSAs) on a genus two Riemann surface constructed by sewing two tori. This relation is used to develop formal ...