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Nightwood: Nightwood Stewart, Christine Anne
Abstract
The novel Nightwood (1936) stalks proximity through a textual realignment of written history, through a writing alive to its own contingencies and through an insistent rearticulation of its signifiers. It struggles to circumscribe into discourse that which has been foreclosed from signification. It releases language from the melancholic stupor of normative prose and initiates a widescale process of resignification. This thesis is an exploration of these textual acts, acts which push language beyond the confines of normalizing discourse into performative, structural and philosophical sites of investigation and reconstruction, toward the open production of new meaning.
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Nightwood: Nightwood
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University of British Columbia
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| Date Issued |
1996
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| Description |
The novel Nightwood (1936) stalks proximity through a textual realignment of
written history, through a writing alive to its own contingencies and through an
insistent rearticulation of its signifiers. It struggles to circumscribe into
discourse that which has been foreclosed from signification. It releases
language from the melancholic stupor of normative prose and initiates a widescale
process of resignification. This thesis is an exploration of these textual
acts, acts which push language beyond the confines of normalizing discourse
into performative, structural and philosophical sites of investigation and
reconstruction, toward the open production of new meaning.
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5180498 bytes
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application/pdf
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| Language |
eng
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| Date Available |
2009-02-09
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| Provider |
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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| Rights |
For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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| DOI |
10.14288/1.0087090
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University of British Columbia
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| Graduation Date |
1996-05
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| Scholarly Level |
Graduate
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| Aggregated Source Repository |
DSpace
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