Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "English"
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Acting is believing: ritual, memory, and performance in the plays of Enda Walsh
(2016-10-17)In this research, I examine the relationship between ritual, memory, and performance and contemporary theatrical creation methods, specifically with reference to the works of Enda Walsh. I use Walsh's plays as a case study ... -
Analogous states: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the performance of ethnography
(2016-12-09)The thesis presents J. M. Synge and Zora Neale Hurston as autoethnographic researcher-practitioners who employed important cultural forms in their theatre, such as the keen and the cakewalk, in order to challenge the ... -
Anglicisms in German radio media: A comparative study of the public service and private broadcasting sector
(NUI Galway, 2020-03-02)This thesis investigates the usage of anglicisms as mobile linguistic resources in both public service and private radio media in Germany. In previous research on anglicisms not much attention has been given to the medium ... -
Artefact Books: Towards a Multi-field Analytical Framework for Literary Research
(2011-09-30)While the most fundamental object of literary studies is often the codex, in this age of digital and electronic sensory inundation, it would seem that the physical book has a limited lifespan. However, the technologies ... -
The beauty of failure: Errancy as a methodology in the works of Samuel Beckett, Mary Swanzy and Jack B. Yeats
(2017-11-29)This thesis argues that Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) creates not only an aesthetic of failure but also a methodology of failure that permeates his works and intensifies as he matures as a writer. I contend that the impetus ... -
Becoming mortal: A study of death in late works by John Banville, Philip Roth and J. M. Coetzee
(2017-08-29)This study explores the centrality of the boundary condition for creative endeavour through close readings of late works by John Banville, Philip Roth and J. M. Coetzee. The thematic concern with death in these authors’ ... -
Between authorities: Exercises and experiments in literary appreciation
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-16)Literary criticism, of the type that follows in this project, is a series of experiments with and about the matter of authority: about how much authority a critic should want to have or be willing to give up, and how much ... -
Body and Soul: Turning Turk in Early Modern Barbary captivity narratives
(2016-12-20)This thesis focuses on early modern Barbary captivity narratives which describe Christian encounters with the Islamic world, and gives particular attention to questions of sexuality and gender. From the short fledgling ... -
Control in a time of conflict: Women’s petitions in Ireland from 1541 to 1584
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-15)This dissertation provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of Anglophone women’s petition letter-writing in Tudor Ireland, from 1541-1583. This project provides both microhistories and quantitative rhetorical ... -
Counterfactual taxonomies: Evolution and empire in the work of Edward Lear
(NUI Galway, 2022-04-25)This dissertation interrogates the structures and patterns of Edward Lear’s (1812-1888) works as reflective of the evolution of nineteenth-century networks of empire and philosophies of the self and humanity’s place in ... -
A critical and textual history of Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh, with two editions of “Paradise and the Peri.”
(NUI Galway, 2009-09)The purpose of this three-part thesis is to construct a study which outlines the composition, publication and reception history of Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh, and to create two closely linked scholarly editions of ... -
Digital ensemble: exploring the design of technology-enhanced learning to mobilise and augment students' engagement with English literature
(2015-06-24)Students are disengaging from learning and literature learning in post primary education in Ireland due to an over-emphasis on rote learning practices and the constraints of high stakes, summative assessments (Chief ... -
Dissecting the monster: mapping discourses of medicine, ethics, and monstrosity in the Victorian Penny Blood
(2017-02-02)This research analyses a set of specimens of penny blood literature from the point of view of medical history, with the goal of providing an examination of the genre in relation to its historical context. In so doing, it ... -
The Dublin Group: Irish mezzotint printmakers and the Dublin print trade c. 1740 to 1750
(2015-05-25)This thesis explores the unique cultural and historical conditions leading to mezzotint portrait reproduction in Dublin during the 1740s. Arguably, the experiences and activity of the Dublin Group at Cork Hill facilitated ... -
The ethics of narrative form in Gaskell, Dickens, and Eliot
(2016-05-03)This thesis explores Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda through the lens of rhetorical narratology to offer conclusions for realism, metafiction, and ... -
Exercises in style: A critical analysis of Dermot Healy’s stylistic development and a short story collection as a creative response
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-28)This practice-based research combines literary criticism and creative writing to explore how style reflects the writer’s evolving sensibilities. The academic research analyses the stylistic development of the prose of ... -
"Extraordinary Debilities": Disability in the works of Samuel Beckett, 1928-45
(2018-02-16)This thesis considers the importance of Samuel Beckett’s representations of disability in the first half of the twentieth-century. It suggests that the innovations of form that Beckett brings to modernism are inextricably ... -
Farming in contemporary Irish fictional narratives: A critical, comparative and creative response
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-13)This practice-in-research dissertation combines creative writing and literary criticism to explore the farm narratives that arose in Ireland due to expansionist agricultural ideologies, and by extension considers what is ... -
A godly Sybilla, an erudite wife and a burdensome sister: the formation and representation of women’s reputations within the Hartlib Circle 1641-1661
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-19)This thesis analyses the formation and representation of the reputations of three women: Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-1691); Dorothy Moore Dury (c.1612-1664); and Jean Appelius (fl.1638-1648), whose connection ... -
Inventing Liberia: imagining and representing colony and nation in American, Liberian and European writing 1820-1940
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-11)Liberia, the West African nation, whose name connotes freedom, was the creation of the American Colonisation Society (ACS) whose initial aim was to rid the United States of a growing population of ‘free people of colour.’ ...