Browsing by Author "Bolton, Jonathan"

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20th Century Feminism: A Jungian Exploration of The Feminine Self

Snellgrove, Christopher (2012-07-31)

The following work uses the theories and methods provided by Carl Jung as a way of analyzing works by three women authors: Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The ...

After Culloden: Anglo-Scottish Identity in the Wake of the 1745 Jacobite Rising

Dowling, Phineas (2020-07-20) ETD File Embargoed

This dissertation explores the literary representation and negotiation of Scottish identity and Anglo-Scottish Union during and immediately after the Jacobite Rising of 1745 (“the Forty-Five”). I argue that we can trace ...

Ambassadors of Community: The History and Complicity of the Family Community in Midnight’s Children and the God of Small Things

Hollis, Victoria (2009-04-27)

This thesis seeks to explore the usefulness of the family as a theoretical construct that serves to provide stability to characters in postcolonial literature in the absence of a stable national community. Benedict Anderson‟s ...

Being Neither and Both: The Liminal Nationality of Four Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Women Writers, A Study of Genre, Gender, and Nation

McDonnell, Adrea (2011-07-14)

This dissertation examines the work of four Anglo-Irish women writers who published in the long eighteenth century, an integral voice in the development of Anglo-Irish nationality. These voices present a counter-perspective ...

Crossing Over: Interactions with(in) the Permeable Screen

Frazer, Michael (2017-04-20)

Within American culture, the television is arguably one of the more common modes of social discourse and entertainment. However, there are a number of literary responses to the medium (as well as other screen devices) that ...

The Devolution of Irish Masculinity in Twentieth Century Irish Drama: Representations of Manliness in the Plays of John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey and Martin McDonagh

Jones, Elizabeth (2015-05-07)

This project argues that prominent playwrights John M. Synge, Sean O’Casey and Martin McDonagh who are either native Irish or self-identify as Irish reject the various versions of masculinity proposed by nationalistic ...

A Different Type of New Woman: The Life and Writing of Lady Mary Jeune

Weaver, Heather (2023-08-02) ETD File Embargoed

Much work has been done in both the popular and academic presses over the last few decades to build the foundational knowledge of women’s activism through life writing, research, and the development of feminist methodologies ...

'From Darwin to the Death Camps': A Collage of Holocaust Representation Focusing on Perpetrator Atrocity Discourse in Literature, Drama, and Film

Brodie, Mark (2007-08-15)

In this dissertation my plan is to take a collage of representational forms that deal with the subject of the Holocaust and to point at the discourse of the perpetrator as possibly a more postmodern form of representing ...

From Tonic to Toxin: Medicinal Plants in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

Anderson, Caitlin (2020-04-27) ETD File Embargoed

My dissertation, From Tonic to Toxin: Medicinal Plants in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century, explores the reclassification of herbs in nineteenth-century British literature and culture from potent allies to ...

Insurrection in Red Ink: The Literary Murder of a 20th Century Goddess

Privett, Katharyn (2006-08-15)

The 20th century literary archetype of the Maternal Goddess had its most locatable beginnings in the late Victorian landscape of poetry and prose. Although goddess imagery had been historically manipulated to serve Victorian ...

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Gordy, Cayce (2006-05-15)

This thesis is a creative work comprised of two short stories preceded by a critical introduction. Both of the stories deal with difficult transitions in the lives of young women; details and images play an important role ...

Popular Music and the Myth of Englishness in British Poetry

East, Brian (2011-04-21)

This dissertation deconstructs the myth of Englishness through a comparative analysis of intersections between popular music and the poetry of the British Isles. In particular, my project explores intersections where popular ...

Rejecting and Embracing the Past: The Challenge of Post-Troubles Identity Construction in Contemporary Northern Irish Novels

Lindsey, Peggy (2016-04-27)

The conflict known as The Troubles which has dominated both real and fictional narratives from and about Northern Ireland since it began in the late 1960s characterizes Northern Ireland as a place steeped in ceaseless and ...