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

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