I intend, with this thesis, to investigate how Michel Foucault's concept of ???a positive unconscious of knowledge??? can be illustrated by overlapping narrative segments. I have coined the term ???friction???, as a writing practice, to describe the space in-between narrative conception and conscious, ordered reflection upon that narrative. Thus, the thesis comprises an exploration of Foucault's intersecting marginal zone, which is an integral aspect of his philosophic concept of ???positive unconscious???. The ???positive unconscious??? is where the overlapping sections of what Foucault calls, a ???table??? (creative narrative) and ???tabula??? (the ordering of the narrative) are situated. The frictional form is synonymous with Foucault's concept. It is as a developing narrative conception that becomes an ordered practice, and also aims to be what Jacques Derrida calls ???a new writing???. Hence, Foucault's ???positive unconscious???, Derrida's ???new writing???, and the frictional narrative process all comprise, along with and through the multiple inclusions of myriad theorists, philosophers, fiction writers, lyric poets, etc., an amalgamated whole ???new??? narrative (the frictionalised thesis). The paradox of the ???new??? (frictional) narrative is that through mimesis comes characterised difference - a ???new??? hybridised space is opened up which both fascinates and appals, railing as it does against fixed, constraining and systematised linguistic and discursive structures. Yet this is a stimulating space that ultimately brings new focus to stifling self-conformity. It is a frictional space comprised of a profusion of literary ???voices??? made singular, a singularity that is also mutiplicitous in its composite origin. It is a frictional observance that refutes the injunction of needing definite closure given its inclusion of potentially unlimited sources.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: F. Michael Connelly.

Thesis (M.A.B.S.)--Southern California College, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-142).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1996. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 267-275).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Convenant Theological Seminary, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-95).

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College Dept. of Classics, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references.

Memoire (M.A.Fr.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1985. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thèses (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), 2001. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 20 juin 2006). Publié aussi en version papier.

Thesis (Ph. D.(Old Testament Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Texte remanié de: Doct. diss.--Edinburgh (Scotland)--University, 1993. / Contient en appendice le texte hébreu du chapitre 2 du Livre des Juges et celui du Livre de Ruth. Bibliogr. pp. [237]-241. Index.