• Britain’s Bourse: cultural and literary exchanges between England and the Low Countries in the early modern era (c. 1580-1620) 

  Higgins, Siobhán (University College Cork, 2017)

  This thesis presents the argument that Anglo-Dutch military contact during the late sixteenth and early to mid seventeenth century created a body of English literature, or even a genre of early modern literature that could ...
• Marlowe's medievalism: subversion and medieval literature in Christopher Marlowe's drama 

  O'Halloran, Meadhbh Eibhlinn (University College Cork, 2017)

  This thesis is the first sustained study of Christopher Marlowe’s strategic handling of medieval literature. This study identifies and explores Marlowe’s subversive use of a range of medieval material, both textual and ...
• The masks of Mnēmosynē: modulations of memory from ancient Greece to modern Paris 

  O'Sullivan, Ian (University College Cork, 2016)

  This thesis traces some of the modulations in the figuration, role and functioning of memory from the Mycenaean civilisation to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece before taking up a reading of the modern continental ...
• Beneath the penumbral glow: John Banville and the cinema 

  Kirwan, Mark (University College Cork, 2016)

  This study focuses on the cinematic aspects of John Banville’s work, aiming to answer how the overt cinematic interest in the cinema in his later work is to be understood in the context of his writing career as a whole. ...
• The unity of Edmund Spenser's Complaints 

  Roy, David Karl (University College Cork, 2017)

  Edmund Spenser's Complaints (1591) is a collection of nine poems; these poems are compartmentalized into four sections, each of which begins with its own frontispiece and contains a dedication to a lady. Complaints is an ...

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