• 'A piece of fine meshwork': the intertwining fiction of Philip Roth and Edna O'Brien 

  O'Brien, Dan (University College Cork, 2016)

  This thesis comprises a comparative analysis of the works the Irish author Edna O’Brien and her contemporary and friend, the Jewish-American author Philip Roth. It investigates the striking biographical, textual and stylistic ...
• Social paranoia and absurdist fiction in Cold War America and Soviet Russia: a comparative study 

  Corcoran, Miranda (University College Cork, 2016)

  This thesis explores the theme of social paranoia as depicted in the Absurdist fiction of Cold War America and Soviet Russia. The central hypothesis informing this research maintains that, despite the ideology of moral and ...
• Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality 

  Waldron, Michael John (University College Cork, 2016)

  This thesis is the first sustained assessment of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing from a visual perspective. By first compiling a visual biography of the author, I argue that Bowen’s responsiveness to art, her relationships with ...
• Frederick Douglass and Ireland, 1845: The "Vertiginous Twist[s]" of an Irish Encounter 

  Coughlan, Elizabeth Ann (University College Cork, 2015)

  Frederick Douglas was a reader of and writer on the nineteenth-century political and social texts and contexts of oppression, which he experienced at home and witnesed while in Ireland and Britain, 1845-47. This thesis is ...
• Reading Lydgate's Troy Book: patronage, politics, and history in Lancastrian England 

  Fawsitt, Diana (University College Cork, 2014)

  This thesis, Reading Lydgate's Troy Book: Patronage, Politics and History in Lancastrian England, discusses the relationship between John Lydgate as a court poet to his patron Henry V. I contend that the Troy Book is ...

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