ENG40320 Dissertation
Professor Nicholas Daly (co-ordinator)
The MA programme is designed to develop advanced knowledge and skills in the area of modern literary studies. Half of the credits and assessment weighting for the programme is awarded for the work undertaken in producing a 15,000 to 20,000 word dissertation to reflect this commitment to research. At the beginning of semester two you are required to submit a proposal for dissertation research and you will be assigned a research supervisor to advise and guide you on the direction of your research and the writing of the dissertation. You are expected to meet with your supervisor on a regular basis to discuss research plans and written drafts of your dissertation chapters. The dissertation is normally submitted by August 15th.
Titles of some of the dissertations completed in recent years on this MA programme:
- Re-defining the X: How Disengagement Becomes Autonomy in the Transgressive Fiction of Generation X (Emily Looser, 2006)
- Laurence Hope: A Biographical and Critical Study (Paul Ennis, 2006)
- Deadly Bodies: The Women and Texts of Jean Rhys and Muriel Spark (Leona Talbot, 2005)
- Anti-Ulysses: Toward a Modernist Schizopoetics (Aidan Tynan, 2005)
- Telling Stories in the Dark: The Metafictional Cityscapes of Djuna Barnes' Nightwood and Jeanette Winterson's The Passion (Antoinette Doran, 2005)
- Following Ballard's Lines of Flight: An Analysis of Concrete Island, The Atrocity Exhibition, and Crash (Andrew McEneff, 2004)
- Identity, Knowledge, and Metaphor in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (Lucy Cogan, 2004)
- Reflections: On Female Identity in Three Re-Visions of 'Snow White' (Anna Kealy, 2004)
