Non Serviam (?) James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing: The cases of Anne Enright, Eimear McBride and Emilie Pine

This thesis explores the impact of James Joyce's work on contemporary Irish women's writing, with a focus on Anne Enright's The Gathering, Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and Emilie Pine's Ruth & Pen. While Joyce's reception and influence in general have been extensively studied, ther