Beyond belief - an exegesis to Roimata: a novel

Younger, Susan Elizabeth

Beyond belief - an exegesis to Roimata: a novel

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dc.contributor.advisor	Johnson, Stephanie
dc.contributor.author	Younger, Susan Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned	2011-09-12T05:01:53Z
dc.date.available	2011-09-12T05:01:53Z
dc.date.copyright	2010
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.date.updated	2011-07-01T04:55:25Z
dc.description.abstract	The creative work Roimata is a contemporary novel set in New Zealand in 2010. The action takes place over eight weeks, between a proposal of marriage and a wedding. There is an element of mystery, as a forty-year-old murder story unfolds, but it is primarily literary fiction. Roimata explores the way in which childhood and memory influence our lives and who we become. It reflects on what ‘truth’ might mean and how we construct ‘belief’. Beyond Belief is an exegesis examining the concept of consilience in the novel Roimata. Consilience stems from an ancient Greek school of thought, that there is a unity of knowledge and that all is knowable by logic, as opposed to the mysticism in many cultures, religions and philosophical theories. Beyond Belief looks at some of the ideas about consilience coming from scientists E.O. Wilson and Edward Slingerland, literary theorist Brian Boyd and novelist Ian McEwan, all of whom believe the humanities and sciences can be seen as different ways of exploring the same, knowable truth. It includes some auto-ethnographic reflection on the process of writing Roimata and the way in which recent findings from neuroscience and evolutionary biology influenced the novel.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10292/2050
dc.language.iso	en	en_NZ
dc.publisher	Auckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrights	OpenAccess
dc.title	Beyond belief - an exegesis to Roimata: a novel
dc.type	Thesis
thesis.degree.grantor	Auckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.level	Masters Theses
thesis.degree.name	Master of Creative Writing