Caroline's Bikini : An Arrangement of a Novel with an Introduction
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 34864606
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- ISBN
- 9780571339327
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This novel takes as its subject the investigation of narrative, the questioning of distinctions between poetry and prose (using Petrarch’s Il Canzoniere sequence as both metonym and dramatic element of the story), an enquiry into the meaning and value of the novel as it is represented in the contemporary marketplace, and the troubling of distinctions between fiction and non-fiction. There is an emphasis on the relationship between a novel’s structure and apparatus, managed around notions of a narrative line with a beginning that works its way to the end, and the rather more circuitous and open-ended lyrical essay with its hesitancies, false starts, unanswered questions and ruminations.
Caroline’s Bikini sits at the intersection of the Modernist novel (it has been widely recognised in those terms: see, e.g., Boyd Tonkin in Financial Times and Rosemary Goring in Scottish Review of Books), literary letters (it has been the focus of seminars and lectures in Oxford, Birkbeck and Krakow Universities, amongst other places), and authorial practice (it has been the subject of interview for writing and literature programmes here and abroad).
The novel itself, then, is an expression of critical reflection, and it draws upon scholarship on the translation of Petrarchan texts and a host of literary references, both embedded within and called up in the notes and endpapers that accompany the text.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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