Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Subject "American literature"
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Screamingly funny: A critical approach to the comedic anti-war novels of Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins and Tony Vigorito
(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 ... -
Upon uncertain ice: contingency, being and witness in later Cormac McCarthy
(2014-09-30)Interest in Cormac McCarthy¿s writing has grown rapidly over the past decade, with an attendant increase in the scholarly attention paid to his works. The author's long affiliation with the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) has ...