CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Cserháti, Éva Zsófia |
|---|---|
| Title | INTERDISCIPLINARY WRITING IN COSMODOPLHINS: FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDIES OF TECHNOLOGY, ANIMALS AND THE SACRED OF BRYLD METTE AND NINA LYKKE |
| Summary | In this thesis I focus on how the literary works in Cosmodoplhins: Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals and the Sacred of Bryld Mette and Nina Lykke (2000). In order to do that I explore three concepts—literature, literary studies and the literary—and how they are positioned in the interdisciplinary network. Then I examine the debates around the dominant vs. ignored epistemological positions of literature among the disciplines, and I place it outside of academia. I map out three possible strategies to claim back literature as a mode of knowledge production and its implications for feminist studies. The first is an interdisciplinary method that focuses on how the application of literary studies’ analytical tools transforms the relationship between different disciplinary fields and leads to the formation of interdisciplines. The second founds its theoretical approach in the deconstruction of the hierarchical dichotomy between science and literature, and suggests that they are essential for each other. And finally, the third strategy’s foundational concept is post/academic writing that tries to relocate the dislocated literary in knowledge production by employing diverse writing styles in academic work. I explore how the authors place literature, literary studies and the literary in their work and in relation to interdisciplinarity, and I point out how revealing is the metaphorical level of their writing. I use the narrative turn as lens to bring into focus the book’s operational modes in claiming back literature. I analyze the three strategies as to how Cosmodolphins borders the realm of the literary. Finally I focus on the Amazing Stories, the writing strategies in Cosmodolphins and the rejection of the tradition of écriture féminine. My main claim is that, while Cosmodolphins is successful in interdisciplinary boundary-crossing especially in its methodologies and theoretical framework, its style is embedded in the academic writing tradition. |
| Supervisor | Lukić, Jasmina |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/cserhati_eva.pdf |
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