“But the bizarre things won” queer materialities and descriptions in Denton Welch’s In Youth is Pleasure

Maisterintutkielma keskittyy materiaalisten objektien sekä ihmisten ja esineiden välisen vuorovaikutuksen kuvaukseen brittiläisen kirjailijan Denton Welchin romaanissa In Youth is Pleasure (1945). Welchin romaani on täynnä yksityiskohtaisia kuvauksia materiaalisesta ympäristöstä – erityisesti ihmise...

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Päätekijä: Pitkänen, Heli
Muut tekijät: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humanistis-yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, Musiikin, taiteen ja kulttuurin tutkimuksen laitos, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Aineistotyyppi: Pro gradu
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Julkaistu: 2024
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description Maisterintutkielma keskittyy materiaalisten objektien sekä ihmisten ja esineiden välisen vuorovaikutuksen kuvaukseen brittiläisen kirjailijan Denton Welchin romaanissa In Youth is Pleasure (1945). Welchin romaani on täynnä yksityiskohtaisia kuvauksia materiaalisesta ympäristöstä – erityisesti ihmisen tekemistä esineistä, joiden kanssa päähenkilö Orvil Pym on tiiviissä vuorovaikutuksessa. Teoksen keskeisimpiä elementtejä ovat Orvilin ja materiaalisten esineiden välinen konventioita horjuttava vuorovaikutus sekä esinekuvausten runsaus. Ihmisten ja esineiden suhteiden moniselitteisten ja ambivalenttien ulottuvuuksien analyysi kytkeytyykin tutkielmassa kuvauksellisten kehysten ja hierarkioiden tarkasteluun. Tutkimusaihetta lähestytään kysymällä 1) miten ihmisten ja esineiden vuorovaikutusta kuvataan Denton Welchin In Youth is Pleasure -teoksessa ja 2) miten queer-näkökulma voi tukea Welchin romaanin materiaalisuuksien ja niiden kuvausten analyysia. Tutkimusmenetelminä käytetään queer-luentaa ja kuvauksen analyysia, jotka on johdettu tutkimuksen teoreettisista lähtökohdista (deskriptioteoria, queer-narratologia ja esineteoria). Analyysi osoittaa, että Orvilin kohtaamiset materiaalisen esineiden kanssa eivät sovellu yhteen perinteisen instrumentaalisuuden kanssa, jota horjutetaan romaanissa sekä tarinan että diskurssin tasoilla. Samalla esiin nousevat toimijuuden, esineellistämisen, omistamisen sekä visuaalisuuden potentiaalit ja problematiikka. Teoksessa ilmenevät ihmisten ja esineiden välisen vuorovaikutuksen ristiriitaisuus ja epävarmuus queerittavat sekä kuvausta että kerrontaa avaten kuvauksen analyysin queer-narratologisia mahdollisuuksia. This master’s thesis focuses on the description of material objects and human–thing interactions in the novel In Youth is Pleasure (1945) by the British author Denton Welch. Welch’s novel is full of detailed portrayals of the material world – especially its human-made objects – which the protagonist Orvil Pym interacts with and immerses himself in. The unconventional aspects of this interaction, along with the abundance of things and their descriptions, inspire a reading that charts the descriptive schemes and patterns manifested in the novel, and yet embraces the ambiguity that characterises its human–thing relations. The topic of the study is approached by asking 1) how the interaction between humans and inanimate things is described in Denton Welch’s In Youth is Pleasure, and 2) how a queer perspective can contribute to the analysis of materialities and their descriptions in Welch’s novel. The methods, queer reading and analysis of description, are derived from the theoretical perspectives employed: theory of description, queer narrative theory, and thing theory. The analysis shows that Orvil’s experimentation with material things goes against the logics of instrumentality both on the levels of story and discourse, revealing the complex potentials and problematics of thingification, agency, possession, and visuality. The ambivalence of the human–thing interaction in the novel participates in the queering of both description and narration, coinciding with the suggestion that there may be queer potential in the analysis of description.
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