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

Fee, Roderick Harold
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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.
Keywords
Creative writing; Novels; Ambiguity and reader response; Fabulism and irreality; Collapse theory
Date
2008
Item Type
Thesis
Supervisor(s)
Cranna, John; Johnson, Rosser
Degree Name
Master of Creative Writing
Publisher
Auckland University of Technology

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