Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "Paterson, Adrian"
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Emanuel Carnevali's cultural translation: an Italian in Modernist America
Ciribuco, Andrea (2016-02-09)The thesis investigates translingual writing – that is, writing in a language which is not the native one – at the intersection between culture, identity, and translation. The focus is here on Italian American writer Emanuel ... -
"Extraordinary Debilities": Disability in the works of Samuel Beckett, 1928-45
Purcell, Siobhán (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 ... -
“Then sing England for ever, and Erin-go-bragh”: Irishness in the English-printed, nineteenth-century street ballad
Corfe, Isabel (NUI Galway, 2020-03-02)Throughout the nineteenth century, Ireland was by far the most dominant national trope in English-printed street balladry, appearing as specified place in English streetballadry almost as much as England itself. Ireland ... -
Writers reading the American press: Responsive connections between Djuna Barnes, Edith Wharton, and Gertrude Stein
Fletcher, Gabrielle (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, ...