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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"English, Media & Theatre Studies"”.
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Patriots and Fribbles: Effeminacy and Politics in the Literature of the Seven Years’ War and its Aftermath, 1756-1774
This thesis examines British cultural anxieties surrounding effeminacy and foreignness in the literature of the Seven Years’ War and its aftermath, c. 1756-1772. Primarily, it is concerned with assessing how anxiety regarding effeminacy presents as a discourse of crisis within a diverse set of …
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Bad Mothers in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
… novel, the texts I discuss are written by English authors and centre on maternal affection or the lack thereof. The thesis continues by examining Daniel Defoe‘s Moll Flanders and Roxana. Both these novels reflect the conditions of poor and destitute mothers in eighteenth-century society, …
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Marxism After Modernism: Anglo-American Leftist Theorisations of Modernism in the Later Twentieth Century
This dissertation considers the manner in which a number of key Marxian intellectuals from the Anglo-American cultural left, including Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, Raymond Williams, Rosalind Krauss and others, have attempted to make sense of both literary high …
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Dance and Dramatherapy providing a Facilitating Environment for the Physically Disabled
This case study consists of a closed group of ten adults with physical disabilities including brain injury. They range in age from 35 years to 60 years of age. I refer specifically to year three of an ongoing practice. At this time the group transitioned from a Drama to a Dramatherapy practice. The …
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Teenagers, Everyday Life and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland
The aim of this thesis is to provide a social and cultural history of young people, their lives and their interactions with popular culture in 1950s Ireland. Popular culture is contextualised within the wider social discourses of the decade including emigration, unemployment, globalisation and the …
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Transforming Limits: Home, Literary Activism and Engagement in South Asian Literature
This research project considers activism, in various fields, as a significant and recurring preoccupation of South Asian literary fiction and non - fiction predominantly in the twentieth century, with some notable extensions into the first decade o f the twenty - first century. Relatedly, it …
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Vexatious Bodies in Modern Ireland
… Félix Guattari. The thesis also analyses print media, focussing on national broadsheets, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and The Irish Press and magazines, Hot press, In Dublin, The Phoenix and Magill and television drama, The Spike (1978), along with influential current affairs programs …
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W.B. Yeats, 1904 Popular Theatre and the Politics of Cuchullain
“Last night the new theatre which the Irish National Theatre Society has...was opened under the happiest auspices…Long before the curtain rose the pit and gallery were packed…On Baile’s Strand is one of the best acting plays that Mr Yeats has written…there is less of the mystical and more of the …
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"Nun, Married, Old Maid": Kate O'Brien's Fiction, Women and Irish Catholicism
The settings of Kate O’Brien’s novels span late nineteenth early twentieth-century Ireland and are concerned with the lives of middle-class women. This thesis argues that O’Brien’s rendering of the interiority of the bourgeois family and the inner lives of middle-class women, reveals a site of the …
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The Influence of English Colonial Discourse on Early Irish Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1674-1754
… and to consider to what extent contemporary English-Irish relations informed or shaped the texts. As such, this thesis seeks to build on recent interest in Irish responses to and revisions of Shakespeare, as evidenced by such publications as Robin Bates’ Shakespeare and the Cultural …
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This Irish Fiction of Emily Lawless: a narrative analysis
… will be seen to reflect that employed by the English novel of the same period as outlined by Nancy Armstrong. It will be the intention of this dissertation, therefore, to demonstrate that Lawless‟s engagement with contemporary social issues, whether directly as in Hurrish and Grania or …