Andy started following the work of Charles Lock, University of Copenhagen, Department of English, German and Roman Studies.
Andy started following the work of 4 people.
Andy started following the work of Meer Mushfique Mahmood, IBAIS University, English.
Andy '...style presupposes the presence of authoritative points of view and authoritative, stabilized ideological value judgments. ... Where there is no adequate form for the unmediated expression of an ... more
Graduate Student, Department of English
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Sam North
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I'm about midway through a Creative Writing PhD, hoping to be done at some point in 2011.
The creative component of my thesis is a novel set in the South East of England in 2001. It follows the Strange family during the six month period following the recovery of a 27 year old man after a 13 year coma, the result of a botched drug experiment and is told from the viewpoints of father, mother, son and daughter. At the time of the son's accident, the parents had lied to everyone - including the police - to hide their son's complicity and his recovery, while initially welcomed, causes enormous problems. Thematically, the novel examines the structures supporting an anonymous and mundane form of middle class respectability and the motives for its perpetuation. It is a novel of fragile identities and the lies that keep them from disintegration.
My critical research, for this project, applies Bakhtin's theories of discourse, authorship and polyglossia (as set out in 'The Dialogic Imagination' and 'Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics') to the editing process, in part by seeing how these operate in Michael Ondaatje's 'The English Patient'.
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