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‘Sandcastles’ & ‘The Postmodern Rules For Family Living’

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Whole exegesis(726.92 KB)
Sandcastles - draft novel(1.56 MB)
The Postmodern Rules for Family Living - draft novel(1.3 MB)

Date

2008

Authors

Supervisor

Cranna, John
Johnson, Rosser

Item type

Thesis

Degree name

Master of Creative Writing

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Publisher

Auckland University of Technology

Abstract

The exegesis accompanies a thesis, the latter being the portfolio of work consisting of two parts, each being a completed first draft of a novel written during the Masters of Creative Writing course: Part 1: ‘Sandcastles’ - a 'closed' text novel Part 2: ‘The Postmodern Rules For Family Living’ - an 'open' text novel These two works are separately bound with a thesis cover sheet and numbered. The exegesis covers the writer’s motivation for writing these works, reflections on the course of development and changes in thinking that occurred during research and the act of writing. It shows the changing perspectives of the writer’s two thesis works in context and in contra-distinction to each other. It includes the writer’s academic and creative goals as they developed and the result achieved in terms of those goals. It highlights the writer’s developing interest in literary theory including suggesting an ephemeral adjunct to Reader-Response theory which is described as 'Collapse'. It shows the development of the writer’s deep interest in reality in fiction versus the lie in fiction and in the differences between writing and reading a creative work produced primarily for entertainment versus work of a literary nature, identifying some of the differences in features the writer has perceived.

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Keywords

Creative writing, Novels, Ambiguity and reader response, Fabulism and irreality, Collapse theory

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Permanent link

https://hdl.handle.net/10292/770

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