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Creative Writing Phd Thesis by Francis Gilbert...7 Title: Who Do You Love? The Novel of my Life (Creative Writing thesis) and Building Beauty: the Role of Aesthetic Education in my Teaching and Writing Lives (commentary on the Creative Writing thesis) Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing By Francis Jonathan Gilbert, Goldsmiths, University of London, August 2015 1 DECLARATION I hereby declare that, except where attribution is made, the work presented in this thesis is entirely my own. To the best of my belief this thesis contains no material previously published or written by another person, nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any degree, except where due acknowledgement has been made. Word count (exclusive of appendix, list of references and bibliography): 115,800 words; the bibliography is 1500 words; and the appendices is 750 words. The main thesis is 80,000 words and the commentary is 35,800 words. Signed: Date: Francis Gilbert 2 Acknowledgments Previous drafts of the Creative Writing thesis Who Do You Love? have appeared in Glits-e in vol. 2, 2011 and Glits-e vol. 4, 2013-2014: Goldsmiths academic online journal. Extracts from my educational commentary, Building Beauty, have appeared in the academic journal English in Education as “But sir, I lied – The value of autobiographical discourse in the classroom”, Vol.46 No.2 2012. I offer sincere thanks to my supervisors for the PhD for all the care and attention they’ve paid to my work: Professor Blake Morrison, Professor Rosalyn George and Chris Kearney. Thanks and gratitude as well to friends and family who have read drafts of the PhD and offered invaluable comments and encouragement: Ella Frears, Jane Harris, Andrea Mason, Toby Mundy, Erica Wagner. 3 Abstract The first part of the thesis is the autobiographical novel, Who Do You Love? It is narrated in the first person by Francis, a fictionalised representation of the author. The novel tells the story of how Francis is sacked as a journalist and then a little later learns that his former- lover, Ellida, has died. These traumatic events prompt Francis to remember his past life with Ellida and induce, in the present day, a crisis in his marriage to Hadley, a school teacher. His failure to get a new job and his grief at Ellida’s death result in a crisis of confidence which is exacerbated when Hadley becomes interested in another man. As he discovers more about Ellida’s family, his situation grows even more complex and conflicted. Throughout the novel, all the main characters have to address the question posed in its title. The novel is accompanied by an educational commentary which reflects deeply upon the author’s writing processes and the possible application of the lessons learnt in the author’s teaching and writing careers. The commentary shows how the author has found it helpful to think of himself primarily as an “aesthetic learner” rather than a writer or teacher. The commentary discusses various issues connected with aesthetic education and then shows what happened when the author put the principles of aesthetic education into practice in his own classroom teaching. Four case studies – the author’s own pupils -- are analysed in detail: two eleven-year-olds and two fifteen-year-olds. They were asked to write their own “aesthetic autobiographies” – autobiographical accounts which deploy the devices of fiction – and then were interviewed regarding their thoughts and feelings about this project. The commentary suggests that the case studies reveal some important things about their lives and situations, and shows that there are possible educational and therapeutic benefits in projects such as these. 4 CONTENTS Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................................. 3 Abstract ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Who Do You Love? Creative Writing PhD thesis by Francis Gilbert.................................................. 7 Part One .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Chapter 1: Sacked ........................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 2: After the hurricane ...................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 3: Eros ............................................................................................................................. 23 Chapter 4: The play in the woods ................................................................................................. 26 Chapter 5: Josiah .......................................................................................................................... 38 Chapter 6: A Norwegian picnic on Brighton Beach ..................................................................... 43 Chapter 7: Hadley ......................................................................................................................... 50 Chapter 8: The trip to London ...................................................................................................... 54 Part Two............................................................................................................................................ 61 Chapter 1: You have to tell her ..................................................................................................... 61 Chapter 2: North ........................................................................................................................... 66 Chapter 3: Mercy .......................................................................................................................... 90 Part Three .......................................................................................................................................... 97 Chapter 1: The Surrealist party ..................................................................................................... 97 Chapter 2: The grown-up daughter ............................................................................................. 125 Chapter 3: Baby games ............................................................................................................... 136 Chapter 4: Isolde ........................................................................................................................ 143 Part Four ......................................................................................................................................... 151 Chapter 1: Ellida again ............................................................................................................... 151 Chapter 2: One fine summer night ............................................................................................. 158 Chapter 3: The lady from the sea ................................................................................................ 162 Chapter 4: Ellida’s room ............................................................................................................ 175 Building Beauty: the Role of Aesthetic Education in my Teaching and Writing Lives: .................. 201 The commentary for Francis Gilbert’s PhD in Creative Writing .................................................... 201 Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... 203 Introduction: research questions and rationale ................................................................................ 204 Part I: What is “aesthetic education” and why might it be useful for teachers and writers? ........... 206 1.1 Language, narrative and autobiography: towards a theory of aesthetic literacy ................... 206 1.2 Being a teacher and writer .................................................................................................... 218 1.3 The school matrix ................................................................................................................. 223 1.4 Aesthetic autobiography as a form of escape ....................................................................... 227 1.5 From aesthetic appreciation to aesthetic autobiography ....................................................... 229 1.6 What is “aesthetic education”? ............................................................................................. 235 5 1.7 Reconfiguring teacher and writer identities within an “aesthetic” context ........................... 237 Figure 3 .................................................................................................................................. 240 1.8 From aesthetic learner to aesthetic educator ......................................................................... 241 1.9 Bringing the threads together: re-visiting teacher and artist identity .................................... 244 Figure 4 .................................................................................................................................. 245 Figure 5 .................................................................................................................................. 246 Figure 6 .................................................................................................................................
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