Lost in the Stacks: A Collection of (Auto)Fictions

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dc.contributor.advisorForlini, Stefania
dc.contributor.authorNicol, Jessica
dc.contributor.committeememberMcGillivray, Murray
dc.contributor.committeememberVan Herk, Aritha
dc.contributor.committeememberCahill, Susan
dc.contributor.committeememberWiesenthal, Chris
dc.date2020-06
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-14T18:35:22Z
dc.date.available2020-05-14T18:35:22Z
dc.date.issued2020-04-30
dc.description.abstractLost in the Stacks: A Collection of Auto(Fictions) is a cross-genre book about the impossible search for order and answers in an archive of personal and cultural history—the Bob Gibson Collection of Speculative Fiction, housed at the University of Calgary’s Archives and Special Collections—and the intrinsic chaos that permeates the collection, the writer’s life, and the dissertation project itself. A personal exploration of collecting, objects and things, bodies, and extraordinary flashes within everyday concerns, the book plays with the bounds of fact and fiction in order to explore what it means to tell stories in the generic modes of fiction, memoir, and autofiction. Written in fragments—short stories, personal essay-like vignettes, quotations, images—the project uses a continued focus on serendipity and coincidence to weave seemingly disparate ideas together into a narrative that builds and culminates in a critical afterword about the objects, storytelling methods, and gendered contexts of the book and lengthy dissertation-writing process.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNicol, J. (2020). Lost in the Stacks: A Collection of (Auto)Fictions (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37833
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/112046
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectBob Gibson Collection of Speculative Fictionen_US
dc.subjectAutofictionen_US
dc.subjectArchivesen_US
dc.subjectCollectionsen_US
dc.subjectObjectsen_US
dc.subjectThingsen_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectThe Tale of Peter Rabbiten_US
dc.subjectSerendipityen_US
dc.subject.classificationLiteratureen_US
dc.subject.classificationLiterature--Englishen_US
dc.titleLost in the Stacks: A Collection of (Auto)Fictionsen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
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