Dissertation
The Poor Love Principle: Queerly Mythic Narratives in Transreal Futures Fiction—a maximal, sociohistorical and cultural exploration of performative Australian character types
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2025
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00925
Abstract
This Doctor of Philosophy thesis comprises two independent but related components: a creative artefact novel titled The Poor Love Principle, and a critical essay that explores the concepts involved in the research and writing process. Many terms are used, and sometimes coined, to articulate the ideas drawn from cultural and social theory and phenomena, and they are applied in specific ways to suit authorial purpose and designs. Accordingly, a glossary of terms, abbreviations and neologisms used in the essay is included to assist with meaning clarification for the reader. The essay and artefact respond to the question: How can transilient performative character types be crafted and employed in transreal narratives using queerly mythic identity constructs to create agential flows within the transmodern cultural continuum?
The concept of “trans” is key to the explorations and is applied in numerous directions and conceptual evocations, especially in relation to the implications for writing that navigates the fictive levels available to transgressive characters who can traverse the boundaries and levels of fiction and reality. When fictional characters are dislodged from realist constraints in a queered confabulation, a mythic dimension opens to enhance the performative author function and character agency. Imbuing the pretentions of realist fiction with fantastic aspects destabilises normative existential realities to create sites for innovative expansions of transreal narrative potential. Moreover, using mythic representational character types adds meta levels to conventional identity narratives, inviting a complex interaction between authors, their characters and the audience, to enhance creative performative flows of self-expression.
Details
- Title
- The Poor Love Principle: Queerly Mythic Narratives in Transreal Futures Fiction—a maximal, sociohistorical and cultural exploration of performative Australian character types
- Authors
- William Douglas - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Contributors
- Marcus Bussey (Principal Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research ClusterGinna Brock (Co-Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesStefanie Fishel (Co-Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00925
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991128905302621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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