dc.contributor.author | Beck, Morgan M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-31T13:57:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-31T13:57:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-08-30 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/82898 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis considers what it means to use the academically maligned concept of “relatability” as a critical reading tool. Drawing on Rita Felski’s Hooked, Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic,” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words, I articulate the facets I think compose relatability: relating requires a more than intellectual relationship to text; it includes recognition; it includes distance or unfamiliarity (the imperfectness of the recognition is essential); it necessitates reading vulnerably, because to relate is to be vulnerable; and finally, relating to a text has the potential to produce transformation: the experience of being moved and thus changed. I will then look at my experience of relating to Elena Ferrante’s The Story of a New Name, simultaneously reading how relatability works for characters within the text. I reflect on how these facets of relatability I define influence my own reading and my relationship to feeling as an interpretive method. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Relatability | en_US |
dc.subject | Autotheory | en_US |
dc.subject | Elena Ferrante | en_US |
dc.subject | Rita Felski | en_US |
dc.title | Relating to Elena: Unexpressed and Unrecognized Feeling | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2023-08-31 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of English | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Dr. Bart Vautour | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Heather Jessup | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Brittany Kraus | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Dr. Alice Brittan | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |