Familiar places — (Re)creating “home”: an exegesis

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Familiar places — (Re)creating “home”: an exegesis

My thesis — a novel and an accompanying exegesis — addresses the question: what is ‘home’? What are the ways in which it has been and can be understood? And in particular, how can it be represented in narrative fiction so as to take into account its many intricate facets? Framed by my understanding...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Papas, Maria
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2009
Subjects:	outward landscapes home familiarity transience intricate facets nurture neglect narrative focaliser narrative fiction creation of self fluidity mental inscapes geographical space
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2376

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