Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920.

My creative production, 'A Woman of Passion', a novel about Olive Schreiner, South Africa's first white woman novelist and social thinker, required me to address questions raised about fictionalising a real life subject. My exegesis examines debates around Historiography, Biography an...

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Main Author: Caulfield, Janice Leonie
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88093
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description My creative production, 'A Woman of Passion', a novel about Olive Schreiner, South Africa's first white woman novelist and social thinker, required me to address questions raised about fictionalising a real life subject. My exegesis examines debates around Historiography, Biography and Fiction. The tension for writers of bio-fiction is between producing a novel that is trustworthy and at the same time original. My research questions address fiction's capacity for truth, and authenticity. By examining my own creative process, how I have negotiated between scholarship and imagination, I attempt to answer these questions.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-880932024-03-27T03:53:00Z Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920. Caulfield, Janice Leonie My creative production, 'A Woman of Passion', a novel about Olive Schreiner, South Africa's first white woman novelist and social thinker, required me to address questions raised about fictionalising a real life subject. My exegesis examines debates around Historiography, Biography and Fiction. The tension for writers of bio-fiction is between producing a novel that is trustworthy and at the same time original. My research questions address fiction's capacity for truth, and authenticity. By examining my own creative process, how I have negotiated between scholarship and imagination, I attempt to answer these questions. 2022 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88093 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Caulfield, Janice Leonie
Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920.
title Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920.
title_full Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920.
title_fullStr Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920.
title_full_unstemmed Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920.
title_short Between Scholarship and Imagination: A Fictional Interpretation of the South African Writer and Social Theorist Olive Schreiner, 1855-1920.
title_sort between scholarship and imagination: a fictional interpretation of the south african writer and social theorist olive schreiner, 1855-1920.
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88093