Thesis complete!

Well it’s been two years in the making, but late Thursday I handed in my finished thesis – a day before deadline!

As said in my previous post, it leaves me with mixed feelings; I feel the creative piece isn’t as strong as it could be. But nevertheless, it constitutes the product of a create challenge that I set myself; I really wanted to take my writing into new places and expand my creative skills, and I think I have achieved that through the thesis process.

Even if the finished result falls shy of my initial expectations, the honours journey was what I needed to get me back into writing. I have written more this year than any year of my life, and whilst at times it felt like an absolute chore (and the product an absolute mess) I think you have to grind the stone a little sometimes before you sharpen the axe.

Full credit go to my amazing supervisors David Whish-Wilson and Christina Lee – without their enthusiasm, knowledge and motivation I would have never got to the end. I have learnt a great deal about myself and writing through working with them.

If you would like to read my thesis, you can now view and print it via the link below. The work is split into two parts; an exegesis entitled To See is To Know: Naturalism and Trauma in The Road, and a piece of short fiction entitled City of Birds.

You don’t need to read one to understand the other, but together they work towards answering the central question of my thesis:

How do naturalist narrative techniques facilitate the representation of trauma in post apocalyptic texts?

I hope you like it.

Read: “To See is to Know: Naturalism and Trauma in The Road” & “City of Birds”

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