Date of Award
1-1-2012
Document Type
Campus Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
Sub-Department
English
First Advisor
Catherine Keyser
Abstract
This paper examines the work of Jane Bowles, especially her novel Two Serious Ladies and long short story 'Camp Cataract,' as she demonstrates models of relationality. Using affect theory, this paper explores the way that Bowles's work may offer theories of relationality, in which the self and other function via processes of reading and inscription. These models work as criticisms or investigations of relational practices; however, more interestingly, the formal elements of Bowles's work, her poetic, aesthetic, and metafictional choices, demonstrate a relationship between reader and text that likewise operates along inscriptive and hermeneutic practices. This suggests not a fatalistic or stabilized portrait of relationality, but one in which there is room for change and adaptation--potentially changes that might have significant effects on the way that we consider identity.
Rights
© 2012, Rachel Jane Carroll
Recommended Citation
Carroll, R. J.(2012). “Of Considerable Interest But of No Great Importance”: Models of Relationality in the Work of Jane Bowles. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1054