• Transnational women’s poetry of the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D., Sheila Wingfield 

  Condon, Gráinne (University College Cork, 2021-11-17)

  This thesis traces symmetries in the poetic responses of four women poets across two continents to the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D. and Sheila Wingfield. This thesis considers the representation of ...
• The semiotics of food in James Joyce's "Ulysses" 

  Small, Felicity (Flicka) (University College Cork, 2021)

  Food lies at the heart of human life, playing a profound role throughout the world and history. This thesis looks at the microcosm of food and foodways in James Joyce’s Ulysses, through semiotics, anthropology and personal ...
• The Amergin Step: explorations in the imagination of Iveragh 

  Bushe, Patrick Joseph (University College Cork, 2021-04-21)

  This work is a creative act of pietas, of homage and of gratitude towards the place where I have lived for almost half a century. It is an engagement with aspects of the literature of the southwestern end of the Iveragh ...
• 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 ...

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