This analysis examines the life and actions of the seventeenth-century Irish man, William Lamport, known in the Spanish-speaking world as Guillen de Lampart. In this thesis, William Lamport, influenced by the literary and intellectual trends of his time, stylized himself as an i…
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In stark contrast to the city, rural spaces are often considered resistant to the novelistic impulse of narrative progress. Lives here are seemingly unchanged by time or human invention. The rural is often overlooked as an immobile reference point of beginning, way station or en…
What is proposed in this study is that chess-games in the works of Thomas Stearns Eliot and Samuel Barclay Beckett are among the most well-defined and clear-cut arenas these authors have found for foregrounding a particularly problematic protagonist. And it is proposed that Beck…
This study bridges modernist and postcolonial studies to examine the relationship between decadence and empire across the long twentieth century. From Britain and Ireland to the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia, I argue that decadent aestheticism and fin-de-siècle radicalism co…
Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy can be seen at work in the texts of canonical modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse, Albert Camus, Rainer Maria Rilke, William B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, and it is in the balance of these two …
Modernism is not typically thought of as a genre that engages with the gothic, in any mode other than dismissal. And yet the gothic abounds in modernist literature, and in particular, modernist literature is filled with ghosts. In this dissertation, I offer readings of James Joy…
This dissertation examines James Joyce, H.D., and John Berryman, three writers whose Modernisms revise masculinity. Joyce decides that freedom from patriarchal paralysis can be found only within a plural subject. An epiphany, instead of being a moment of objective enlightenment,…
An analysis of the role of rent-seeking in the formation of clienteles and the relationship of clientage to changes in the political structure of a society. The principal argument is that elites extract resources from society to underwrite the costs of maintaining power through …
This dissertation is about the appropriation of classical Greek plots, personae, and even entire texts in Anglophone postcolonial works propounding themes of reconciliation. Key primary texts analyzed in the dissertation include James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Derek Walcott's epic…
This dissertation focuses on the influence of Jewish culture on the entire Joyce canon. It also touches upon the impact of psychoanalysis, the "Jewish science," on Joycean thought. A close reading of Joyce's major texts, combined with an analysis of their historical context and …
In 1882, the year Joyce and Woolf were born, England, yielding to the double pressure of the Irish Problem and the threat of a nationalist uprising in Egypt, occupied Egypt. Reading Egypt as a charged site of sexual and textual subversion in Joyce's and Woolf's last works makes …
This dissertation examines the creation of a "third space" out of the rigid binary structure of dominance and subjugation under post-colonial conditions in the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston. Employing the subversive politics of difference, minorit…
In this dissertation I explore the role that religious discourses (especially the Hebrew Bible), ethnic nationalist movements, and shifting configurations of gender played in the works of German-Jewish and Irish Catholic writers during the early twentieth century. I focus on the…
The oscillation of the conflicts in Israel and Northern Ireland in recent years between advances towards peaceful resolution and regressions to new cycles of bloodshed were explained by the inherent difficulties of territorial compromise, security threats, and effective politica…
Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh (1817) has experienced a lapse in reputation and critical evaluation between its initial reception and recent assessment. Such a view grows through a historical survey of Lalla Rookh's reception and evaluation in the critical milieu from (1817-1989). T…
This study examines works of twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon…
Two twentieth-century plays written in different times and places, with different plots and by different playwrights reveal unusual similarities of theme and character. These similarities suggest that, while each play is the unique creation of its author, both draw from the same…
In its characterization of witches as a devil-worshipping and mostly female heretical sect, the Kyteler case as prosecuted by Richard de Ledrede in 1324 serves as an exceptional model for later Continental witchcraft trials, and consequently has been discussed by several histori…
Writing Revolution: Women Writers and Fictions of Nationalism focuses on the works of four female artists, exploring how each author deals with the contingencies of “feminism” and nationalism in her own geo-political locale. It argues that Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young …