Kate Wake
dc.contributor.author | Wiebe, Mariianne Mays | |
dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Sinclair, Struan (English, Film, and Theatre) Alexandrin, Elizabeth (Religion) | en_US |
dc.contributor.supervisor | Toles, George (English, Film and Theatre) | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-24T15:24:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-24T15:24:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-11-24 | |
dc.degree.discipline | English, Film and Theatre | en_US |
dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Kate Wake is a fictional narrative about two women, one contemporary (Katie) and one historical (Kate Wake). The multi-genre, poetic account also delves into the history of psychiatric health practices on the Canadian prairies. Kate Wake is loosely guided by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. I understand this myth as a working-through of loss by an individual compelled to return to the original scene (of loss), a sort of underworld ruled by sleep, memory and the unconscious. Doing so is risky, but may also result in a movement towards recovery, reparation and renewal: even if uncertain, a future. Drawing on lexicons of music, visual art, poetry and psychoanalysis, Kate Wake develops themes of loss, hope and possibility as they might be found in the struggle of making a work of art. | en_US |
dc.description.note | February 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4985 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.rights | open access | en_US |
dc.subject | literature | en_US |
dc.title | Kate Wake | en_US |
dc.type | master thesis | en_US |