> Chris Jones asked:
> >
> >I am curious, in other parts of the world can one submit a work of
fiction
> >(novel, poetry, film script, performance script etc) as a doctoral thesis
> >or is this some particular oddity of the Australian university system?
>
> Depends on the university & the PhD, but yes, it can happen. usually in a
> Creative Writing situation, but sometimes even in an English Department.
>
> Doug
... and in music departments. It's barely possible that I have a bit of an
extra DPhil from York in the early seventies. When the Australian composer
Anne Boyd did a composition DPhil there, I wrote the libretto for her opera,
_The Rose-Garden_.
Something I try my best to forget.
Robin
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