An Excerpt from Barely Anything, a Novel & SEX
(RE-)EXAMINING BLANK FICTION: An excerpt from Barely Anything, a novel & SEX, NARCISSISM AND DISCONNECTION IN AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES A thesis presented by Tobias McCorkell (298441) to The School of Culture and Communication in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD of Philosophy in the field of Creative Writing (190402) in the School of Culture and Communication The University of Melbourne Supervisor: Dr Eddie Paterson Co-Supervisor: Dr Grant Caldwell August 2016 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Firstly, and most importantly, I would like to thank my principal supervisors, Dr Tony Birch and Dr Eddie Paterson. Your support, criticism, encouragement, patience and unwavering insistence on the value of this research has made this process bearable and rewarding. And to those members of the Creative Writing faculty, and to my co-supervisor (and Honours supervisor) Dr Grant Caldwell, who have all at various stages of development contributed their insight, I thank you for your time and effort. I would like, also, to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people on whose native lands this thesis was conducted, researched, written. And to the city of Melbourne and my home suburb, Coburg, for always being the greatest of inspirations. Finally, I need to thank my family – Mum, Nanma and Pa – for their continual support of my academic and creative pursuits, and their unconditional love. And to Rihana, without whom none of this, all of this – research, success, life – would have been made possible. Words fail to articulate my deepest and most sincere appreciation for what you’ve all given me over the many, many years that I’ve been studying and attempting to express myself.
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