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This loved philology

Mulhall, Maya ( 2017)

‘This Loved Philology’ re-examines the notion of philology as a term meaning ‘love of language’. This thesis juxtaposes the key practice of slow reading against secondary literary and language theory, and against creative texts by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Miguel de Cervantes. The Creative Component is an excerpt from the novel The Adventures of Mr Cock. The novel is a work of fiction, following the protagonist Win as he moves through the failure of his romantic relationship, emphasising motifs of attempted expression, mutable identity, and desire. Throughout, this thesis argues for a reframing of philology as a process of non-linear reading that traces inter-relationships, allusions and tensions between and across creative and theoretical texts.