The writer as map maker.

dc.contributor.advisorCastro, Brianen
dc.contributor.advisorBurton, Thomasen
dc.contributor.advisorNettelbeck, Amanda E.en
dc.contributor.authorCrisp, Benjamin Alexanderen
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Humanitiesen
dc.date.issued2014en
dc.description.abstractThe Journeyman Years is a postmodern historical conspiracy fiction novel chronicling the life and travels of John Riven, a sixteenth-century apprentice alchemist and mapmaker, on a quest to find a mysterious religious relic which he believes holds the secret to the meaning of life. The exegesis situates my writing within the context of postmodern literature and demonstrates how the postmodern author might narrate the journey of self-discovery through an interweaving of three recurring motifs of both historical conspiracy fiction and the critical field of semiotics: codes, maps and symbols. Through an analysis of the critical and creative works of semiotician and postmodern fiction author Umberto Eco – in particular his novel Foucault’s Pendulum – the thesis explores how the interplay of these three motifs serves an examination of question of the limit of interpretation, and how they might combine to offer a framework for responding to this question within a postmodern work of historical conspiracy fiction.en
dc.description.dissertationThesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2014en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/86225
dc.provenanceThis electronic version is made publicly available by the University of Adelaide in accordance with its open access policy for student theses. Copyright in this thesis remains with the author. This thesis may incorporate third party material which has been used by the author pursuant to Fair Dealing exceptions. If you are the owner of any included third party copyright material you wish to be removed from this electronic version, please complete the take down form located at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/legalsen
dc.provenanceVol. 1 [Novel]: The journeyman years -- v. 2 [Exegesis]: Mapping a postmodern world.en
dc.subjectcreative writing; literature; literary criticism, postmodernism, history, conspiracy, fictionen
dc.titleThe writer as map maker.en
dc.typeThesisen

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