Blog Portfolio
byOctober 15, 2022 – “About Me” My first blog entry would serve as a “fact file” about myself as a means to introduce to…
IT and Literature Review
byMy thesis will serve as an inquiry into the extent of J. R. R. Tolkien’s use of medieval poetics and genre in his own imaginative…
Textualities 23
byConference Review At 10:00am to 4:15pm on the 6th of April 2023 the the MA students of UCC’s Department of English hosted a conference…
Accidental Nashe?
byHello again! Just over a month ago I had the pleasure of attending a seminar held by UCC’s department of English. As part of…
Filling in the Gaps: The Ruin
byToday’s post will be slightly different. Today, I will be getting creative! The Ruin is an old English poem contained within the Exeter Book….
The use of Archaic Language in the works of Edmund Spencer and J. R. R. Tolkien
byHello there once again! In today’s blog post we shall be doing an intertextual study of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)…
Editing Wikipedia
byAs part of a recent in class assignment for my course, each member of the EN6009 module was to edit the Wikipedia website. Each…
Medieval Narnia
byI was recently re-reading The Horse and his Boy by C. S. Lewis and have had a few thoughts I felt might be worth…
Reverse Othello Syndrome
byIn November of last year, I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on campus which dealt with texts from the period on which…
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Predestination in Troilus and Criseyde
byIn keeping with my previous post discussing the influence of Augustinian philosophy on early literature, I have decided to dedicate this post to discussing…