Authenticity and Readability on the Brink: Grief and Anxiety in a Tandem Narrative

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aut.filerelease.date2019-12-31
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dc.contributor.advisorGeorge, James
dc.contributor.authorDuffy, Danielle
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-15T03:40:16Z
dc.date.available2017-05-15T03:40:16Z
dc.date.copyright2016
dc.date.created2017
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2017-05-11T21:35:35Z
dc.description.abstractWhite Sheets and Other Particulars is a novel of a woman recovering from the death of her son and a subsequent suicide attempt. It is written as a tandem narrative, with non-chronological flashbacks between a pre-traumatic past and a post-traumatic present. The exegesis was written in parallel and in dialogue with the novel and explores research themes that influenced the first developmental draft. The overarching theme of my work is the notion of “the brink” – the psychological boundary between sanity, normality and life, on one side, and illness, madness and death on the other. The core of the exegesis explores how to express this boundary, as an interior state of the main character, while maintaining both authenticity and readability, and also how structure – in particular, the movement between timelines – can illuminate her changing psychological condition.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/10476
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectTandem narrativeen_NZ
dc.subjectFictive memoiren_NZ
dc.subjectThe psychological brink in writingen_NZ
dc.subjectNon-chronological flashbacken_NZ
dc.subjectExperimental structure in fictionen_NZ
dc.subjectPsychoanalytic theory and fictionen_NZ
dc.subjectRecoveryen_NZ
dc.subjectGriefen_NZ
dc.subjectSuicideen_NZ
dc.subjectSanity and madnessen_NZ
dc.titleAuthenticity and Readability on the Brink: Grief and Anxiety in a Tandem Narrativeen_NZ
dc.typeExegesis
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Theses
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Creative Writingen_NZ
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