How I Left The National Grid: A Creative Writing PhD on Self-Design and Post-Punk
I thought a blog post making my PhD readily available online might be helpful. This was a Creative Writing PhD on self-design in the post-punk movement. The novel component of the PhD, entitled 'How I Left The National Grid', is available as a free preview on Google Books, here- https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/How_I_Left_The_National_Grid.html?id=yABKBgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y Abstract Through creative and critical practice, this PhD makes an original contribution by developing theories of self-design in relation to understandings and creative representations of the post-punk movement. These materials inform the creative component of this PhD, a novel entitled How I Left The National Grid (hereafter, HILTNG). Broadly, speaking, the results, discussion and conclusion for the PhD are as follows: The term ‘self-design’ builds upon the research of Stephen Greenblatt (1980). Greenblatt used the term ‘self-fashioning’ to ex...