Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
First Advisor
Leni Zumas
Term of Graduation
Spring 2024
Date of Publication
7-25-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing
Department
English
Language
English
Subjects
Fiction
Physical Description
1 online resource (i, 122 pages)
Abstract
A novella length narrative experiment in form using the concept of the machine (and its operations) to constrain and arrange text visually in narrative spacetime. Through shifts in form and narrative content, the text addresses a variety of topics, including but not limited to: subjective versus objective experience; self conception and realization; deconstruction; relationality; human and non-human relationships; person and place; love; theories of societal acceleration and how the effects of this acceleration appear in 'daily life;' capitalist modes of production and commodification in late stage capitalism; hegemonic narratives and their disassembly; the question of the good life; resistance; refuges; interspace, liminality, and in-between modes of existence and experience; the practice of writing; art as ritual; transformations and mortality.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42587
Recommended Citation
Dobre, Dumitru Michael, "(un, made" (2024). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 6711.