Englishhttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/612024-03-29T15:10:29Z2024-03-29T15:10:29Z2701"A Good Reder": the middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, instruction, publics, and manuscriptsGriffin, Carriehttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8002023-04-04T07:05:12Z2006-04-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "A Good Reder": the middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, instruction, publics, and manuscripts
dc.contributor.author: Griffin, Carrie
dc.description.abstract: The present work is a study of the Middle English prose text known as The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, a consideration of its transmission and reception history, and a survey of its manuscript witnesses; it also incorporates an edition of the text from two of its manuscripts. The text is a cosmological treatise of approximately five thousand words, written for the most part in English, with astronomical and astrological terms in Latin, though the English translation is frequently given. It is written anonymously, and survives in thirty-three manuscripts.
2006-04-01T00:00:00Z"An Ireland as complex and various as possible": Seán Ó Faoláin's writings on partition as a precursor to peace process republicanismLaird, Heatherhttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/115392023-04-04T12:28:10Z2018-02-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "An Ireland as complex and various as possible": Seán Ó Faoláin's writings on partition as a precursor to peace process republicanism
dc.contributor.author: Laird, Heather
dc.description.abstract: The 1998 Belfast Agreement compelled Irish republicans to think about partition and unification in new ways. The year 2018, the twenty-year anniversary of the ratification of that agreement and nearly one hundred years after the establishment of the Irish Free State, offers an opportune time to revisit the writings of Seán Ó Faoláin, one of the most flamboyant public intellectuals to emerge in Ireland in the postrevolutionary period. This article, which challenges the identification of Ó Faoláin as a protorevisionist and more recent attempts to reclaim him for very different left-republican or poststructuralist intellectual/political projects, will concentrate primarily on Ó Faoláin’s writings on partition. Ó Faoláin’s thinking on partition will be linked here to his writings on the ethnocultural complexities of postrevolutionary Ireland and on literary form. The article will explore the extent to which Ó Faoláin was a precursor not, as has been claimed, of revisionism but of a latter-day nonmilitant pragmatic republicanism that decommissioned its weapons and, in the Belfast Agreement, accepted the principle of consent as the basis for a sovereign all-Ireland state. His writings both point to the range of positions available within post–Civil War republicanism and indicate that none of these positions was without its attendant difficulties
2018-02-01T00:00:00Z"An t-éitheach; is an fíor?...”: A note on two late poems by Máire Mhac an tSaoiCoughlan, Patriciahttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/156122024-03-27T08:22:34Z2015-11-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "An t-éitheach; is an fíor?...”: A note on two late poems by Máire Mhac an tSaoi
dc.contributor.author: Coughlan, Patricia
2015-11-01T00:00:00Z"Chipped and Tilted Marys": Two Irish poets in their contemporary contextsCoughlan, Patriciahttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/155862024-02-27T10:13:25Z2009-01-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "Chipped and Tilted Marys": Two Irish poets in their contemporary contexts
dc.contributor.author: Coughlan, Patricia
dc.contributor.editor: Olinder, Britta; Huber, Werner
2009-01-01T00:00:00Z"I accuse Miss Owenson" : the Wild Irish Girl as media eventConnolly, Clairehttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8152023-04-04T12:27:19Z2000-01-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "I accuse Miss Owenson" : the Wild Irish Girl as media event
dc.contributor.author: Connolly, Claire
2000-01-01T00:00:00Z"I have nothing to say, only to show": appropriation in the poetries of Trevor Joyce, Alan Halsey, and Susan HoweO'Mahony, Niamh Mariehttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/21012023-04-04T07:06:40Z2015-01-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "I have nothing to say, only to show": appropriation in the poetries of Trevor Joyce, Alan Halsey, and Susan Howe
dc.contributor.author: O'Mahony, Niamh Marie
dc.description.abstract: This thesis studies contemporary poetry’s innovations in textual borrowing and the range and scope of its appropriative practices. The restrictions of the inherited definitions of appropriation include a limited capacity for expression and meaningfulness, a partial concept of appropriation’s critical capacity, and an inadequate sense of the poet’s individual and unique practice of appropriation. This thesis resolves the problematic constraints limiting contemporary definitions of appropriation by tracing the history of the practice to reveal an enduring relation between appropriation and poetic expression. Close readings of Trevor Joyce’s, Alan Halsey’s, and Susan Howe’s poetry serve as evidence of contemporary poetry’s development of appropriation beyond the current ascriptions and offer some direction on how the critical understanding of appropriation might be extended and redefined. Here, appropriation is recognized as another source of lyric expression, critical innovation, and conceptual development in contemporary poetry. This thesis encourages a new perspective on the purpose and processes of poetic appropriation and the consequences of its declarative potential for both poet and poem.
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z"i shall / be in my segments": Dissecting and reassessing Tom Raworth’s Oeuvre and its influencesCummins, James Husseinhttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/36532023-04-04T07:04:02Z2015-01-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "i shall / be in my segments": Dissecting and reassessing Tom Raworth’s Oeuvre and its influences
dc.contributor.author: Cummins, James Hussein
dc.description.abstract: This thesis is the first extended examination of Raworth’s poetry and in order to account for the range of Raworth’s work and associations I have offered detailed close readings of numerous texts while situating his work in the context of a wider poetic and artistic community. Taking into account the range of styles and mediums Raworth uses, this thesis has taken a multifaceted approach, drawing from both scholarship on his poetic peers and on art history so as to offer a broader view of his practice. Much of the critical work which surrounds Raworth concentrates on the formal elements of the poems and the reader’s experience of encountering the texts while failing to either situate Raworth’s practice as part of a wider poetic tradition or to offer sustained readings of the contents of the poems. In order to counter this critical trend I began in chapter one by offering four unique ways in which we might approach reading Raworth’s work. In chapters two and three I concentrated on looking at Raworth’s poetry in relation to contemporaneous works which played a part in shaping Raworth’s thinking. My reason for this was a wish to substantially contextualise the poetry before offering close readings which, as I have argued, are often lacking in Raworth scholarship. In order to offer a more complete overview of Raworth’s work in each of these chapters I have concentrated my discussion of separate phases of Raworth’s oeuvre: in chapter two I focused my discussion on Raworth’s earlier collections while in chapter three I discussed Raworth’s move towards the long poems which he wrote throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Finally, in chapter four, I looked at the theme of politics and examined how issues of politics and national identity play an integral role in shaping Raworth’s poetry. This multifaceted approach allowed me to avoid using Raworth’s poetry as illustrative of a singular theory and instead to highlight the complexity of the work itself.
2015-01-01T00:00:00Z"Informed Love": human and non-human bodies in Tim Robinson's ethical aestheticO'Connor, Maureenhttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/70852023-04-04T12:27:45Z2018-10-31T00:00:00Zdc.title: "Informed Love": human and non-human bodies in Tim Robinson's ethical aesthetic
dc.contributor.author: O'Connor, Maureen
dc.description.abstract: Tim Robinson’s rich and variegated cultural productions have generated serious critical consideration in the twenty-first century, mostly addressing his use of folkways and mythology, the cartographic and artistic elements of his publications, as well his attention to language. Most recently, ecocritics have written about space and place in his texts, and the function of geography, landscape, and even geology in positioning Robinson within Ecocritical praxis. There has been very little attention paid, however, to the presence of animals in his work. The current practice of ecofeminism advocates and promotes a horizontal, dispersed, multiple conception of subjectivity, a critique that engages the ramifying consequences of the Western “subject” as it has apotheosized in Enlightenment discourse, including issues of embodiment. Animals, however understood, are instrumental to the project. This essay will discuss the many parallels and connections between Robinson and ecofeminist writers, allowing for a critical re-assessment of the previously misrepresented gender politics of Robinson’s work.
2018-10-31T00:00:00Z"Ladyes, damesels, and jantilwomen": female autonomy and authority in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte DarthurMoloney, Karen Christinehttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19672023-04-04T07:43:09Z2014-01-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "Ladyes, damesels, and jantilwomen": female autonomy and authority in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
dc.contributor.author: Moloney, Karen Christine
dc.description.abstract: Popular medieval English romances were composed and received within the social consciousness of a distinctly patriarchal culture. This study examines the way in which the dynamic of these texts is significantly influenced by the consequences of female endeavour, in the context of an autonomous feminine presence in both the real and imagined worlds of medieval England, and the authority with which this is presented in various narratives, with a particular focus on Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. Chapter One of this study establishes the social and economic positioning of the female in fifteenth-century England, and her capacity for literary engagement; I will then apply this model of female autonomy and authority to a wider discussion of texts contemporary with Malory in Chapters Two and Three, in anticipation of a more detailed study of Le Morte Darthur in Chapters Four and Five. My research explores the female presence and influence in these texts according to certain types: namely the lover, the victim, the ruler, and the temptress. In the case of Malory, the crux of my observations centres on the paradox of the capacity for power in perceived vulnerability, incorporating the presentation of women in this patriarchal culture as being vulnerable and in need of protection, while simultaneously acting as a significant threat to chivalric society by manipulating this apparent fragility, to the detriment of the chivalric knight. In this sense, women can be perceived as being an architect of the romance world, while simultaneously acting as its saboteur. In essence, this study offers an innovative interpretation of female autonomy and authority in medieval romance, presenting an exploration of the physical, intellectual, and emotional placement of women in both the historical and literary worlds of fifteenth-century England, while examining the implications of female conduct on Malory’s Arthurian society.
2014-01-01T00:00:00Z"Listen to him, Mr. Take-Charge": gender politics and morality in Carl Hiaasen's crime novelsGibbs, Alanhttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/29702023-04-04T12:26:37Z2010-01-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "Listen to him, Mr. Take-Charge": gender politics and morality in Carl Hiaasen's crime novels
dc.contributor.author: Gibbs, Alan
dc.contributor.editor: Boyle, Elizabeth; Evans, Anne-Marie
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z