Willowhaven [Semi-autobiographical Gothic short story]
Textual work
Title | Willowhaven [Semi-autobiographical Gothic short story] |
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Type of Work | Textual work |
Creator/Contributor | |
Author | Baker, Dallas J. |
Year | 2014 |
Place of Publication | Australia |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue27/Baker.pdf |
Description of Work | This work of semi-autobiographical Gothic fiction explores ideas about mourning espoused by Jacques Derrida (1996, 2001) who argued that mourning is an affective state that is non-responsive to rational or theoretical ideas. This reflects Michel Foucault’s approach to the state of repression, which he argued cannot be addressed by a theoretical discourse alone (1978: 5). Therefore this work takes a creative rather than theoretical approach. The work explores Derrida’s (2001) notion that mourning is triggered not only by the death of a loved one, but also by the death of that aspect of ourselves that existed only in relationship to the deceased. |
Keywords | creative writing, writing as research, memoir |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 360201. Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) |
Public Notes | Issue theme: Creative Writing as Research III. 'Copyright of all work published in TEXT remains with the authors.' http://www.textjournal.com.au/send.htm |
ERA ID | 35836 |
Byline Affiliations | Southern Cross University |
Journal Title | TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses |
Journal Citation | (Special Issue 27) |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
ISSN | 1327-9556 |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q302q/willowhaven-semi-autobiographical-gothic-short-story
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