Paper Cuts: Investigating Paper Affect in Post-Millennial Literature

剪纸：调查后千禧年文学中的剪纸影响

• 批准号: 2277779
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Nottingham Trent University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2277779
• 关键词: Paper; Cuts; Investigating; Affect; Post

This critical-creative thesis will take the form of a multimodal text that will simultaneously analyse and materially engage with the relationship between paper and contemporary experimental literature. Paper Cuts will bring together literary studies and creative writing with elements of fine art and graphic design by experimenting with the 'graphic surface' (White, 2005) using techniques such as décollage, découpé and fold-over alongside varied typesettings in order to explore the sense of the tactile provoked by printbased media. The final piece will be a hybrid text that intertwines creative narrative and critical discussion, combining a critical analysis of the use of print-based media in contemporary literature with my own experimental fictional narrative. Building on Barthes' (1975) claims that the text provokes emotional and libidinal responses, Paper Cuts will analyse how haptic and other forms of embodied engagement with paper can trigger affect in the reader. The thesis will examine largely neglected contemporary print-and-paper-based experimental texts including Dodson's Bats of the Republic (2015), which includes illustrations and supplementary documents; Zambra's Multiple Choice (2016), written in the form of an aptitude test; and Stephenson and Galland's The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017), which includes photocopied material and varying typography.This thesis builds directly on my previous experience of working in English, Creative Writing and Graphic Design. For my MRes, I am working on a critical-creative thesis on contemporary experimental fiction which will allow me to gain subject expertise and creative skills that will prepare me directly for the proposed project. I am also a member of the Critical Poetics research group, which has heightened my interest in developing cross-disciplinary and creative-critical approaches to the text. My BA Creative Writing dissertation (awarded the highest grade in 2018) took the form of an experimental multinarrative text. I was also awarded the Carcanet Press/PN Review Prize for my BA work. My final year elective modules included 'Literature in Theory', with core sessions on literature, and digital and print technologies. In 2017 I joined Museumand, the National Caribbean Heritage Museum, as a Creative Assistant, and in September 2018 I took up a curatorial placement with Nottingham Contemporary. Both roles have allowed me to work with cultural sector organisations that are both regionally and nationally significant. My prior studies in Creative Media Production and Graphic Design have provided me with a detailed understanding of forms of visual arts experimentation that will be invaluable to my proposed project.Building on recent work in affect theory (e.g. Ahmed, 2004; Malinowska and Miller, 2017; Stern, 2019), Paper Cuts will examine how interacting with the printed medium can produce various psychophysiological responses. In the past two decades critical work on hapticity and embodied cognition has started to emerge, including notable work by Hayles (2012), Borsuk (2015) and Kuzmicová (2017). However, whereas existing research tends to place digital production at the forefront of literary experimentation, the proposed project will consider how paper continues to offer forms of literary innovation. O'Donnell (2013), Krukowsi (2017) and Sax (2017) reflect on how analogue modes of cultural production have resurfaced in recent years, provoking tactile and other forms of sensory response. Bilton (2012) comments on the haptic affordances of paper while Leslie (2016) understands the encounter with the touch screen as ambivalently responsive and closed to authentic interaction. Considering the resurgence of analogue practice in contemporary culture and building on Kress (2009), Gibbons (2016) and Jewitt et al's (2016) work on multimodal literature, this project will consider how the printed medium not only persists but is also essential to new literary practices.

这篇批判性的创造性论文将采用多模态文本的形式，同时分析和实质性地参与纸张和当代实验文学之间的关系。剪纸将把文学研究和创意写作与美术和平面设计的元素结合在一起，通过实验“图形表面”（白色，2005年），使用各种排版技术，如拼贴，折叠和折叠，以探索印刷媒体引起的触觉。最后一篇文章将是一个混合文本，将创造性叙事和批判性讨论交织在一起，将对当代文学中印刷媒体使用的批判性分析与我自己的实验性虚构叙事相结合。在巴特（1975）声称文本激起情感和力比多反应的基础上，剪纸将分析触觉和其他形式的与纸的具体接触如何引发读者的情感。该论文将研究在很大程度上被忽视的当代印刷和纸张为基础的实验文本，包括多德森的共和国蝙蝠（2015年），其中包括插图和补充文件;赞布拉的多项选择（2016年），写在一个能力测试的形式;和斯蒂芬森和加兰的D.O.D.O.的兴衰。（2017），其中包括影印材料和不同的排版。这篇论文直接建立在我以前的工作经验，在英语，创意写作和平面设计。对于我的MRes，我正在研究当代实验小说的批判性创造性论文，这将使我获得学科专业知识和创造性技能，这将使我直接为拟议的项目做好准备。我也是批评诗学研究小组的成员，这提高了我对发展跨学科和创造性批评方法的兴趣。我的文学学士创意写作论文（在2018年获得最高等级）采用了实验性多叙述文本的形式。我还被授予Carcanet出版社/PN评论奖我的BA工作。我的最后一年选修模块包括“文学理论”，与文学，数字和印刷技术的核心会议。2017年，我加入了国家加勒比遗产博物馆Museumand，担任创意助理，并于2018年9月在诺丁汉当代美术馆担任策展工作。这两个角色使我能够与区域和国家重要的文化部门组织合作。我之前在创意媒体制作和平面设计方面的学习使我对视觉艺术实验的形式有了详细的了解，这对我提出的项目将是非常宝贵的。基于最近在情感理论方面的工作（例如Ahmed，2004; Malinowska和米勒，2017; Stern，2019），剪纸将研究如何与印刷媒介互动，从而产生各种心理生理反应。在过去的二十年里，关于触觉和具身认知的关键工作开始出现，包括Hayles（2012），Borsuk（2015）和Kuzmicová（2017）的着名工作。然而，尽管现有的研究倾向于将数字生产置于文学实验的最前沿，但拟议的项目将考虑纸张如何继续提供文学创新的形式。奥唐纳（2013），Krukowsi（2017）和萨克斯（2017）反思了近年来文化生产的模拟模式如何重新出现，引发了触觉和其他形式的感官反应。比尔顿（2012）评论了纸的触觉启示，而莱斯利（2016）则将触摸屏理解为双向响应，接近真实的交互。考虑到当代文化中模拟实践的复兴，并在Kress（2009），Gibbons（2016）和Jewitt等人（2016）关于多模态文学的工作的基础上，该项目将考虑印刷媒介如何不仅持续存在，而且对新的文学实践至关重要。