Journal article
The Performative Exegesis
Text, Vol.20(1), pp.1-17
2016
Abstract
The doctorate in Creative Writing in Australian universities legitimates itself in the academic context with an exegetical component that seeks to translate creative endeavours into acceptable research-speak in order to be measured, funded and sanctioned. However in many of my doctoral students' work, the exegesis has become fictively playful to such an extent that it is almost indistinguishable from the creative artefact it seeks to legitimate. Conversely, in other works, the creative artefact performs an exegetical function. Using epigraphs from interviews with JM Coetzee as prompts, this paper explores various student works in which the boundaries between artefact and exegesis have become blurred.
Details
- Title
- The Performative Exegesis
- Authors
- Paul A Williams (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Text, Vol.20(1), pp.1-17
- Publisher
- Australian Association of Writing Programs
- Date published
- 2016
- DOI
- 10.52086/001c.25306
- ISSN
- 1327-9556
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Reproduced here with kind permission of the author.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449997402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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