Browsing by Subject "Fiction"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Looking Down the Barrel of History. Review of The Dead Eight, by Carlo Gébler
(The Irish Times, 2011) -
Masquerade, self-invention and the nation: uncovering the fiction of Katherine Cecil Thurston
(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 ... -
Mixing With the Devil. Review of Falling Out of Heaven, by John Lynch
(The Irish Times, 2010) -
Tales From a Raging Pen. Review of Gallows and Other Tales of Suspicion and Obsession, by John Arden
(The Irish Times, 2009) -
To begin, and begin again: An exploration of beginnings through philosophy and fiction
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-17)Introduction In this bridging document I want to reflect on the origins of this project and how it has progressed over the last six years. I also want to reflect on how the completion of two different forms, a novel, and ... -
A Writer Pushed to the Edge. Review of Midnight in a Perfect Life, by Michael Collins
(The Irish Times, 2010)