عنوان

Through the weather glass

Number

TLets588709

Title Proper

Through the weather glass

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Burnett, L.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Salford

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

University of Salford

Text preceding or following the note

2013

Text of Note

This Creative Writing thesis argues for the need to rethink our understanding of climate change and focuses on the response of creative writers to this phenomenon, whilst also offering its own creative contribution. The critical component aims at articulating a post-climate change poetics. It reviews the mainstream literature in popular science writing, fiction and poetry from the point of view of a political frame-analysis of climate change, to demonstrate how a certain understanding of climate change maps onto conventions of literary genre. The thesis takes the view that many mainstream literary attempts to negotiate climate change are compromised by the teleological way in which they conceive of the phenomenon. As an alternative position, it draws on the work of climatologist Mike Hulme and physicist and cultural theorist Karen Barad to encourage participation in climate change as a condition for negotiating its meaning. Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass is proposed as a model for literary production informed by this poetics and as a model for the author's own creative practice. The creative component of this thesis is an intra-generic text presenting the fictionalised narrative of a cycle expedition the author made from Salford to the Greek island of Ikaria in the summer of 2010. This substantial work aims to interrogate, imagine, and enquire into the epistemology of a post-climate change world.

Built and Human Environment

Energy

Health and Wellbeing

Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy

Burnett, L.

University of Salford

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[Thesis]

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