dc.contributor.advisor |
Associate Professor Peter Simpson |
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dc.contributor.advisor |
Doctor Jan Cronin |
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dc.contributor.author |
Haarhaus, Isabel |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2007-03-11T22:15:19Z |
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dc.date.available |
2007-03-11T22:15:19Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2006 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Thesis (PhD--English)--University of Auckland, 2006. |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/382 |
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dc.description |
Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or may be available through Interlibrary Loan. |
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dc.description.abstract |
This thesis sets out to examine Janet Frame’s eleven published novels in terms of a
migrant poetics, born of Frame’s enduring concern with displacement and the tropes of
journey and quest. The study will show that, while not literally a migrant writer, Frame
expresses a migrant poetics in her characters and plots as well as in her use and
examination of language, which together present the migrant’s trajectory as an
evolution of subjectivity, climaxing in glimpses of the revivification of self and/as
place; of what this thesis calls subjective arrival. Frame’s migrant poetics will be
examined in terms of it operating on a continuum from literal through metaphorically
transferred to ultimately universal expressions of the indeterminacy that is migration, so
as to show that her migrant poetics thereby signifies most profoundly the possibility for
transformation of not only the self, but also of the context that may provide one with a
place-world in which to be. In so doing, Frame’s fiction will be shown to chart and
excavate what this thesis refers to as the unbearable place so as to reveal therein the
possible place that may sustain the migrant subject’s subjective arrival. Perhaps most
importantly, this study concerns itself with charting the migrant subject’s transformed
perspective as he or she traverses the unbearable place, and thereby with the migrant
subject’s relative willingness and ability to recognise and occupy the possible place, or
what is referred to as the new-country. As such, this thesis argues that Frame’s migrant
poetics speaks to a universal condition and maintains that Frame’s fiction is primarily
and fundamentally concerned with the ontology of Being: with what Martin Heidegger
called Being-in-the-world. But while therefore largely concerned with the ontological
implications of Frame’s writing, and therein largely influenced by theories of Being and
discourses of displacement, rather than by Frame criticism per se, this study remains
committed to the project of close-reading the actual texts at hand. Indeed, this thesis
maintains that crucially Frame’s work never loses sight of the rudimentary, the material
and the actual, and in fact works to refuse the separation between the expressions born
thereof – the literal – with their metaphorically transferred and increasingly universal
implications and manifestations. While informed by her autobiographical writing and
poetry, this thesis almost exclusively concentrates on Frame’s long fiction, which it
tends to consider as one body of work that traces the evolution of the writer’s project for
reappraising the things of subjectivity and place. |
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dc.format |
Scanned from print thesis |
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dc.language.iso |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
PhD Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA1704966 |
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dc.rights |
Whole document restricted. Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
"Turning the stone of being": Migrant Poetics in the Novels of Janet Frame |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
English |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Doctoral |
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thesis.degree.name |
PhD |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.local.anzsrc |
200302 - English Language |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/ClosedAccess |
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pubs.org-id |
Faculty of Arts |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112868154 |
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