Extending the notion of 'text' : The visual and performing arts doctoral thesis

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)395-422
Journal / PublicationVisual Communication
Volume12
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2013
Externally publishedYes

Abstract

Doctoral writing in the visual and performing arts poses many challenges for the academy, not the least of which is accounting for the possible relations which can hold between the written and creative/performed components of a doctoral thesis in these fields. This article proposes that the interrelations between the two components in doctoral submissions of this kind can be theorized as being on a continuum of interrelations, with a number of key text types (or archetypes) being manifested. Through textual analysis of the written component only, the different possible relations can be distinguished through the ways in which the creative component is resemiotized in the written text, through both the verbal and visual semiosis of the written component. This enables us to identify a number of ways in which the 'one' project can be construed through its two different component parts, casting an important light on debates within the field in terms of the relations between creative practice and research. © The Author(s), 2013.

Research Area(s)

  • doctoral theses, doctoral writing, genre, performing arts education, practice-led research, resemiotization, textography, visual arts education

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Extending the notion of 'text': The visual and performing arts doctoral thesis. / Ravelli, Louise; Paltridge, Brian; Starfield, Sue et al.
In: Visual Communication, Vol. 12, No. 4, 11.2013, p. 395-422.

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