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The wyvern's tale : a thought experiment in Bakhtinian dual chronotope occupation
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dc.contributor.advisor | Burnside, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Newell, Marilee | |
dc.coverage.spatial | 303 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-01-04T15:12:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-01-04T15:12:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-06 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/2154 | |
dc.description.abstract | The non-fiction introduction to The Wyvern’s Tale: A Thought Experiment in Bakhtinian Dual Chronotope Occupation documents the evolution of the novel, The Wyvern’s Tale, from the ideas that inspired it to its current incarnation as a full-length novel intended for an adult audience. It comprises an explanation of the novel’s main concept, Bakhtinian dual chronotope occupation, as well as an idea-focused account of the creative-writing process. Detailed in the introduction’s theoretical premise is the relationship between Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of chronotope and the carnivalesque and the ideal of the divided union in Chalcedonian Christology. This relationship revolves around the state of existing in two time-spaces at once. The novel, The Wyvern’s Tale, explores this dual existence imaginatively using the setting of parallel worlds – the every-day world and a fictional world called Wyvern – as well as a protagonist, who functions in the fictional world as a Christ-figure. Particular thematic emphasis is placed on differing perceptions of truth and reality, and on the transformative power of costumes. The novel’s outcome, dependent on the reader’s decision as to whether dual chronotope occupation is possible or impossible, is respectively either hopeful or tragic. It attempts to reflect the outcome of the life and death of Christ depending on whether his co-existence as God and man was real or imagined. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of St Andrews | |
dc.relation | Rabelais and His World | en_US |
dc.relation | The Dialogic Imagination | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
dc.subject | Bakhtinian philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Dual chronotope occupation | en_US |
dc.subject | Creative writing process | en_US |
dc.subject | Chalcedonian Christology | en_US |
dc.subject | Alternate reality | en_US |
dc.subject | Dialogism | en_US |
dc.subject | Dual natures | en_US |
dc.subject | Carnivalesque | en_US |
dc.subject | Fairy tale | en_US |
dc.subject | Costume | en_US |
dc.subject | Incarnation | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | PR6114.E9456W8 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhailovich), 1895-1975--Influence | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Space and time in literature | en_US |
dc.title | The wyvern's tale : a thought experiment in Bakhtinian dual chronotope occupation | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | The University of St Andrews | en_US |
dc.rights.embargodate | Print and electronic copy restricted until 25th May 2015 | en_US |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Thesis restricted in accordance with University regulations | en_US |
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