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dc.contributor.advisorHunter, Adrian-
dc.contributor.authorRae, Allan-
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-17T09:22:50Z-
dc.date.issued2015-09-29-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/24044-
dc.description.abstractThe screen, as recent studies in a number of fields indicate, is a cultural object due for critical reappraisal. Work on the theoretical status of screen objects tends to focus upon the materialisation of surface; in other words, it attempts to rethink the relationship between the supposedly 'superficial' facade and the 'functional' object itself. I suggest that this work, while usefully chipping away at the dichotomy between the 'superficial' and the 'functional', can lead us to a more radical conclusion when read in the context of subjectivity. By rethinking the relationship between the surface and the obverse face of the screen as the terms of a dialectic, we can ‘read’ the screen as the vital component in a process which constitutes the Subject. In order to demonstrate this, I analyse productions of subjectivity in literary texts of the twenty-first century — in doing so, I assume the novel as nonpareil arena of the dramatisation of subjectivity — and I propose a reading of the work of Jacques Lacan as hitherto unacknowledged theorist par excellence of the form and function of the screen. Lacan describes, with the function of desire and the formation of the screen of fantasy, the primary position this ‘screen-form' inhabits in the constitution of the Subject. Lacan’s work forms a critical juncture through which we must proceed if we are to properly read and understand the chosen texts: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber; The Tain by China Miéville; Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; and Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald. In each text, I analyse the particular materialisations of the screen and interrogate the constitution of the subject and the locus of desire. By analysing the vicissitudes of subjectivity in these texts, I make a claim for the study of the screen as constituting a central question in the field of contemporary literature.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Stirlingen_GB
dc.subjectcontemporary literatureen_GB
dc.subjectpsychoanalysisen_GB
dc.subjectSebalden_GB
dc.subjectMiévilleen_GB
dc.subjectAtwooden_GB
dc.subjectFaberen_GB
dc.subjectLacanen_GB
dc.subjectŽižeken_GB
dc.subjectscreens in literatureen_GB
dc.subjectsubjectivityen_GB
dc.subjectscreenen_GB
dc.subjectvampireen_GB
dc.subjecttwenty-first century literatureen_GB
dc.subjectOryx and Crakeen_GB
dc.subjectThe Tainen_GB
dc.subjectThe Book of Strange New Thingsen_GB
dc.subjectAusterlitzen_GB
dc.subjectZizeken_GB
dc.subjecttraumaen_GB
dc.subjectcultural theoryen_GB
dc.subjectobjectivityen_GB
dc.subjectobjectsen_GB
dc.subjectsubjecten_GB
dc.subjectdialecticen_GB
dc.subjectstructuralismen_GB
dc.subjectpost-structuralismen_GB
dc.subjectfantasyen_GB
dc.subjectdesireen_GB
dc.subjectpsychoanalytic theoryen_GB
dc.subject.lcshMotion pictures and literatureen_GB
dc.subject.lcshLacan, Jacques 1901-1981en_GB
dc.subject.lcshIdentity (Psychology)en_GB
dc.subject.lcshTwenty-first century literatureen_GB
dc.titleThe Age of the Screen: Subjectivity in Twenty-First Century Literatureen_GB
dc.typeThesis or Dissertationen_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophyen_GB
dc.rights.embargodate2018-01-01-
dc.rights.embargoreasonTime required to write articles and monograph from my thesis.en_GB
dc.author.emailallan.tiberius.rae@gmail.comen_GB
dc.rights.embargoterms2018-02-01en_GB
dc.rights.embargoliftdate2018-02-01-
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