• Gone Forth to Prosper: Mary Shelley’s global novel, Frankenstein 

  deBie, Jennifer R. (University College Cork, 2020-12-04)

  For decades, Mary Shelley criticism has undergone steady expansion as she and her work have received recognition from the academic community writ large. In recent years Shelley’s later works, novels, short stories, and ...
• (Re)writing Columbine: literary representations of trauma in high school shooting narratives 

  Mahler, Anne (University College Cork, 2020-09-24)

  Since its emergence as a critical discipline in the mid-1990s, trauma theory has established itself firmly as a mode of literary interpretation. Yet, because of its initial overreliance on Freudian theory, and the resultant ...
• Finding oneself far from home: identity construction in contemporary US migrant women’s fiction 

  Alghamdi, Khlwd (University College Cork, 2020-04)

  This thesis discusses US immigrant women’s narratives in terms of identity construction, adaptation to the host environment, and the resulting effects on the characters’ sense of home and belonging. The thesis also compares ...
• Let these things be written 

  Whyte, Fiona (University College Cork, 2020-02-15)

  Let These Things be Written comprises an historical novel and a critical commentary on the creative process which informed it. The novel is a re-imagining of the life of St Cuthbert and is presented from the point of ...
• A cultural history of The Great Book of Ireland – Leabhar Mór na hÉireann 

  Lawlor, James (University College Cork, 2020-02-01)

  This thesis critically examines The Great Book of Ireland /Leabhar Mór na hÉireann (GBOI), a late-twentieth-century single-volume vellum manuscript created in Dublin between 1989 and 1993. Addressing a gap in both public ...

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