The Violet Hours
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2021
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Evitts, Annabel Edwina
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Prosser, Rosslyn
Nettelbeck, Amanda
Nettelbeck, Amanda
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The thesis consists of a creative work, “The Violet Hours,” and its accompanying exegesis, “Of Wounds and Seductions: Erotics, Loss and the Restless (Textual) Body.” The creative work is a hybrid textual body which utilizes various forms of expression – the letter, the diary entry, the fragment, and the prose poem – to perform and to explore a poetics of longing: one anchored in erotic desire, one anchored in mourning and loss. The exegesis aims to investigate the potential for poetic language and poesis to enact and articulate emotional intensities of the body. The exegesis asks: how to approach a poetics of desire? How to approach a poetics of illness, of suffering? What language might emerge from the erotic, desiring body? What language might emerge from the body in mourning, the body that suffers? How has experimental, poetic, and formally innovative literature explored such questions through narrative devices and poetics? Through the trajectory (and “accumulation”) of its parts, the exegesis positions “The Violet Hours” within the realm of postmodernist literatures and feminist experimental writing practices. The creative work and exegesis act together to situate my work within contemporary discussions and literary explorations of language, the body, and emotion. Collectively, these thesis components advocate for the productive, pleasurable, and transgressive potential of language and (textual) bodies.
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School of Humanities : English, Creative Writing, and Film
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2021
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