Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality

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dc.contributor.advisorWalshe, Eibhearen
dc.contributor.authorWaldron, Michael John
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-25T11:03:05Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is the first sustained assessment of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing from a visual perspective. By first compiling a visual biography of the author, I argue that Bowen’s responsiveness to art, her relationships with artists, and her knowledge of modern and traditional aesthetics are formative influences on her work. Investigating her assertion that she was a “visual writer,” my discussion develops into an examination of her technique of “verbal painting” through which she reinvents traditional visual modes as a personal modernist idiom. Close textual analysis of Bowen’s fictions forms the dominant methodology of this thesis and facilitates my delineation of her engagement with the Futurist and Surrealist aesthetics in addition to broader aspects of her visuality, including her treatment of the “vividly visual” dream-state to the distinct ocularcentricity of her writing. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to advance our knowledge of Bowen’s visual method and to offer a new approach in which to nuance our understanding of her modernismen
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dc.identifier.citationWaldron, M. J. 2016. Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.endpage229en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/2623
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2016, Michael John Waldron.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectElizabeth Bowenen
dc.subjectAnglo-Irish literatureen
dc.subjectFuturismen
dc.subjectVisualityen
dc.subjectVisual literatureen
dc.subjectModernist literatureen
dc.subjectModernismen
dc.subjectVerbal paintingen
dc.subjectTwentieth-century literatureen
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dc.titleElizabeth Bowen and the art of visualityen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD (Arts)en
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