Lips That Touch, a novel & ‘Tiny Jubilations’, a critical essay exploring photography, narrative and inspiration as haunting

[摘要] This practice as research thesis comprises two elements:1)Vol. 1 is a novel, Lips That Touch, set in small-town Scotland between 1935 and 1969. Centring on two main characters, Rena and Bobby, it is a story of family, thwarted ambition and complicated love. 2)Vol. 2 is a commentary that approaches the question of whether inspiration can be understood as a form of haunting through an exploration of photography, memory and narrative. Writing in a way that is personal and postcritical, I consider my use of family photographs and photographs of the built environment (specifically Kilmarnock) as research for the novel, including the role of place, postmemory and inherited narratives. Particular reference is made to the work of William McIlvanney, Janice Galloway, Roland Barthes, Eugène Atget and Hervé Guibert.

[发布机构] University:University of Glasgow;Department:School of Critical Studies

[关键词] Fiction, practice as research, novel, photography, Barthes, McIlvanney, Scotland, Kilmarnock, memory, postmemory, haunting, inspiration, post-industrial.