Browsing University of Limerick Theses & Dissertations by Author "Griffin, Michael"

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Disciplining dystopia: power and the body in contemporary young adult dystopian fiction

Buggy, Sara (University of Limerick, 2015)

Despite a lineage stretching back as far as the 1940s, it is only in recent years that Young Adult (YA) fiction has begun to shed its reputation as a niche category largely deemed unworthy of study. The current boom in ...
The Irelands that we dreamed of: Irish science fiction from the 1850s to the present

Fennell, Jack (University of Limerick, 2013)

My original contribution to knowledge is a synthesis between ‘mythological’ and ‘historical’ definitions of science fiction, a synthesis which I believe allows for a more nuanced understanding of postcolonial SF. In this ...
Utopianism in eighteenth-century Ireland

Ní Chuanacháin, Deirdre (University of Limerick, 2013)

The utopian propensity, the impulse to a better world, is found throughout human culture. However, its expression is necessarily historically and culturally variable. The leitmotif on which utopianism in Ireland is based ...

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