English, Drama and Film Theses [3]

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This collection is made up of doctoral and master theses by research, which have been received in accordance with university regulations.

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Both the edge and the centre: the politics of understanding music in middle English poetry - an interdisciplinary study

Nangle, Sarah J. (University College Dublin. School of English, Drama and Film, 2016)

This dissertation offers an interdisciplinary examination of the uses of music in Middle English poetry through analysis of numerous allusions to music in texts from the late-thirteenth to early-fifteenth century, with ...
Not fit to be mentioned: legal ghosts and displaced narratives in the Northanger 'Horrid' novels

Mangan, Christine (University College Dublin. School of English, Drama and Film, 2015)

Once thought to be the fictitious creations of Jane Austen, the seven Gothic novels that comprise the ‘Northanger ‘Horrid’ Novels’ have been critically neglected since their rediscovery in the early twentieth century. For, ...
Enlarging Irish hate : the objects and uses of Yeatsian hate

Hassett, Joseph M. (University College Dublin, 1984)

William Butler Yeats was extraordinarily vocal and vigorous in articulating hatred as his poetic passion of preference -- so much so that when he dreamed of his goals as a poet, he "dreamed of enlarging Irish hate". This ...