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'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Creator:: McGrory, Suzette L.
Abstract:: Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Suzette L

Confessing Ireland : the colonial politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

Creator:: Rathert, Gregory S.
Abstract:: Ireland's Catholic Church played an important role in the turn-of-the-century nationalism that shaped James Joyce's identity and writing; yet it also played an important part in preventing that nationalism from achieving its goals of autonomy and cultural independence. For Joyce, this was particularly evident in the dialects and thought structures...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Colonial Politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Abstract

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Creator:: Breeden, Shobana L.
Abstract:: This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: June 4, 2008. Title: From the Encoded to the Explicit in the 20th Century Irish Romance: A Study

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

Creator:: Nelson, John C. M.
Abstract:: In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesis argues that Joyce's portrait of the Catholic Church's influence on Irish culture is his attempt

(Mis)representation & Postcolonial Masculinity : The Origins of Violence in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

Creator:: Evans, Nicolas M. J.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the postmodern confrontation of representation throughout the oeuvre of Martin McDonagh. I particularly look to his later body of work, which directly and self-reflexively confronts issues of artistic representation & masculinity, in order to gain a more nuanced understanding of his earliest and most controversial plays. In...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Films of Martin McDonagh Introduction Martin McDonagh was part of a wave of young Irish and

Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

Creator:: Tracy, Hannah R.
Abstract:: The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ......................... 47 "Outraged Womanhood" and "Starved Poison-fed Infancy": Lawless's thania and the Irish Peasant

The comparative cooking qualities of certain varieties of potatoes

Creator:: McFarlane, Mary Whiting
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Creator:: Bromley, Michele Joy
Abstract:: Monstrous beings, or distortions of nature, were a tangible object of fear in the medieval and early modern eras. Aristotle, as a precursor to the scientists and magical practitioners of the twelfth century or the barber-surgeons of the sixteenth century, understood monsters to be human or animal beings deformed by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: having fashioned the faerie queene in character and grace after the English Queen Elizabeth I is a

Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

Creator:: Furman, Kali
Abstract:: Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Source material for holiday programs in high school : an annotated bibliography

Creator:: Castle, Leola Blanche
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Palmer Putnam that wIll be liked by high school pupils. Five girls, and six boys. Irish, Larie

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'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Confessing Ireland : the colonial politics of Irish Catholicism in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

(Mis)representation & Postcolonial Masculinity : The Origins of Violence in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh

Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

The comparative cooking qualities of certain varieties of potatoes

Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

Source material for holiday programs in high school : an annotated bibliography

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