Degree Name

Master of Arts

Graduate Program

English

Advisor

Netzley, Ryan

Abstract

Using both Kontje’s and Bolaki’s discussions of the bildungsroman and ecofeminist criticism, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s novel, The Dancers Dancing, can be read as an exploration into the (often overlooked or hidden) experience of Irish female adolescence. Ní Dhuibhne likens the “unseen” spaces of the Irish country landscape – like the river the main character, Orla, frequents – to the experience of the adolescent Irish female.

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