Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Literature"
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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 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 ... -
"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 ... -
When they talk about mothers: Writing and investigating queer kinship in contemporary poetry
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-15)This creative practice thesis combines creative writing in the genre of poetry with literary analysis to explore aspects of queer kinship, particularly representations of queer motherhood and grief in contemporary poetry. ... -
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 ...