Browsing by Subject "Literature"
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Androgyny and (near) perfect marriage : a systems view of the genders of Leopold and Molly Bloom
(Northern Illinois University, 2010)The essay seeks to analyse the nature of the marital relations between Leopold and Molly Bloom from Joyce’s Ulysses in the light of the spouses’ respective psychological genders. The analysis is underpinned by systems ... -
Daddy, Daddy/Mammy, Mammy: Sylvia Plath and Thomas Kinsella
(Indiana University, 2008)In his memoir The Kick: a Life among Writers,Richard Murphy recalls Thomas and Eleanor Kinsella joining Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and himself in Ireland (Murphy, 226-27). Kinsella softens any profound inferences from this ... -
The death of the American dream
(Dublin Business School, 2004)This Final Year Project explores some of the key literary texts by twentieth-century American writers. It argues that these texts reflect certain aspects of the American character which are encapsulated in what is called ... -
Defamiliarisation in the arts of war
(Dublin Business School, 2013)Defamiliarisation refers in general to an artistic technique that forces people to look with new eyes upon familiar subjects. Defamiliarisation emerged against the backdrop of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In ... -
Dissident clowning : Dario Fo and the politics of Commedia Dell'Arte
(Dublin Business School, 2006)The purpose of this Final Year Project is to demonstrate the politically dissident potential latent in commedia dell' arte and to describe how this potential was tapped in the twentieth century with particular reference ... -
Dracula : literary analysis, criticism, and cultural importance
(Dublin Business School, 2003)The aim of this study is to, through four chapters of discussion provide a reference to the novel Dracula that will benefit literary enthusiasts who 'wish to understand the depth and vitality of the literary story, which ... -
Dynamism of character in Shakespeare's mature tragedies
(Associated University Presses, 2003)Dynamism of character in Shakespeare's mature tragedies applies the systems theory of character to the analysis of the psychological and dramatic consistence of the main characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. -
From interaction to symbol : a systems view of the evolution of signs and communication
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009)Sadowski's book offers a comprehensive model of communication based on deductive formulations of systems theory supported by evolutionary thinking. The systems model generates the following types of communication: direct, ... -
Gender and literature : a systems study
(University Press of America, Inc., 2001)A Systems Study addresses the notion of gender as a "social construct," and presents evolutionary reasons for human psycho-behavioural differentiation along the lines of sexual dimorphism of the reproductive and the related ... -
‘A god / good kissing carrion’ : Hamlet II.ii.181
(Regents of the University of Colorado, 2001)During his first public appearance as a ‘madman ,’ Hamlet treats the importunate Polonius with a number of equivocations, saying among other things what in most editions of the play is rendered as: ‘For if the sun breed ... -
Henrik Ibsen in the search for women's identity
(Dublin Business School, 2003)Henrik Ibsen's drama is famous for its concentration of the social lives of bourgeois people. These dramas are said to be naturalist as they take place in one setting, and in short space of time. Any events that happen ... -
Junk wins by default : an examination of opiates on the creative mind in four key texts
(Dublin Business School, 2013)In 1821, Thomas De Quincey’s seminal text on opium addiction, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, was published. The book combined a narrative driven by the squalor and desperation of addiction with a sense of psychological ... -
Killing the angel in the house : explores representations of martial violence and domestic abuse in the English Victorian novel and the role that writers of fiction played in the transformation of attitudes and law
(Dublin Business School, 2014)The aim of this thesis is to explore the representation of marital violence and domestic abuse in the English Victorian novel and the role that writers of fiction played in the transformation of attitudes and the law. Using ... -
The knight on his quest : symbolic patterns of transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Associated University Presses, 1996)This book offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the major thematic aspects of the English fourteenth-century romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The chief aim of author Piotr Sadowski is to look at the ... -
Literature as interaction : a systems model of literary composition and reception
(Konstanta Publishers, 2000)can it be reduced to a selected element or types of elements. For example, a reduction of literary meaning to a single factor: be it the socio -economic conditions in which the text is produced (as in Marxist criticism), ... -
Living on the Hyphen: How Elizabeth Bowen Portrays the Predicament of the Anglo-Irish in The Last September
(SAHKartell, 2015)This paper explores the portrayal of the Anglo-Irish in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September. Bowen writes from personal experience with a strong sense of irony to explore the relationships of this declining class and their ... -
The more things change the more they stay the same, a critical investigation into contemporary fantasy literature
(Dublin Business School, 2014)Fantasy literature has a long and storied history, but since the publication of works like J.R.R. Tolkien‟s The Lord of the Rings (1954) the genre has enjoyed a steady growth in the last sixty years, and has spawned both ... -
Once a Villain Always a Villain: Edmund’s “Reformation” in King Lear, 5.3.241-42
(SAHKartell, 2015)The article examines possible motives behind the alleged change of heart shown by Edmund at the end of King Lear when, defeated by his brother Edgar, he decides to revoke his former order to execute Lear and Cordelia. ... -
The origins of the psychological 'interior' - evidence from imperial roman literacy practices and related issues
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008)The pervasiveness in psychological literature of the assumption that mental events and psychology in general occur within the person – henceforth the psychological interior‘ – is introduced and the received view of its ... -
Patterns not our own : the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Louis de Bernieres
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The purpose of this Final Year Project is to demonstrate that the genre of magical realism possesses subversive and liberating qualities discernable in the work of both Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Louis de Bernieres. In ...