Browsing by Author "Ryder, Sean"
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A critical and textual history of Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh, with two editions of “Paradise and the Peri.”
Tonra, Justin (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 ... -
Defining Colony and Empire in 19th-Century Irish Nationalism
Pilkington, Lionel; Ryder, Sean (Irish Academic Press, 2005)[no abstract available] -
Exercises in style: A critical analysis of Dermot Healy’s stylistic development and a short story collection as a creative response
Doggett, Eamon (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 ... -
Gender and the Discourse of Young Ireland Nationalism
Ryder, Sean (Galway University Press, 1995) -
Ireland in Ruins: The Figure of Ruin in Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry
Ryder, Sean (Ashgate, 2005)[no abstract available] -
Ireland s Difficulty: The Novelist s Opportunity
Ryder, Sean (Field Day, 2008)[no abstract available] -
Ireland, India and Popular Nationalism in the Early Nineteenth Century
Ryder, Sean (Irish Academic Press, 2006)[no abstract available] -
James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings (Introduction)
Ryder, Sean (University College Dublin Press Dublin, 2004)[no abstract available] -
Male Autobiography and Cultural Nationalism: John Mitchel and James Clarence Mangan
Ryder, Sean (Cork University Press, 1992)[no abstract available] -
Masquerade, self-invention and the nation: uncovering the fiction of Katherine Cecil Thurston
Bergin, Alan Thomas (2014-03-07)This dissertation explores the life and works of Cork-born novelist, Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911). Thurston occupies a liminal place in the Irish literary canon in spite of achieving significant transatlantic success ... -
Measuring moments: Annotating and quantifying narrative time disruptions in modernist and hypertext fiction
Kearns, Edward (NUI Galway, 2021-07-30)This project outlines a new method of annotating and quantitatively discussing narrative techniques related to time in fiction. Its principal research questions are, firstly, to determine whether a valid and useful system ... -
Modernity s Other: The Quiet Man, The Field and The Commitments
Ryder, Sean (Liffey Press, 2009)[no abstract available] -
The Politics of Landscape and Region in 19th-Century Poetry
Ryder, Sean (Four Courts Press, 2000)[no abstract available] -
Reading Lessons: Famine and The Nation 1845-49
Ryder, Sean (Irish Academic Press, 1996)[no abstract available] -
The Representation and Narrative Function of a Character's Unconscious in the Films of Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock and Krzysztof Kieslowski
Johnson, Veronica (2013-06-04)Summary of Contents This thesis has examined a phenomenon that is unusual in cinema - the use of a character's unconscious as a motivating factor for action and narrative progression. The three directors chosen for this ... -
Screamingly funny: A critical approach to the comedic anti-war novels of Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins and Tony Vigorito
Gallagher, Rosemary (2016-10-14)This thesis investigates the use of humour in American anti-war novels in the second half of the twentieth century, through an analysis of joke-work in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961), Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five ... -
Son and Parents: Speranza and William Wilde
Ryder, Sean (Cambridge University Press, 2013-01)[no abstract available]