Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 
 

Files

File List


csu1219269969.pdf (112.1 KB)

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

Destruction in Search of Hope: Baudrillard, Simulation, and Chuck Palahniuk's Choke

Fawver, Kurt D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1219269969

Abstract Details

2008, Master of Arts in English, Cleveland State University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
Chuck Palahniuk's Choke is a text that perfectly constructs a world of simulation as theorized by Jean Baudrillard. However, rather than reveling in meaningless, if entertaining, hyperreality as Baudrillard does, the text attempts to find escape from the endless barrage of mediated images and information inherent in such a simulatory existence. It advocates an evolution (or de-evolution, as the case may be) of communication and signification, a willful ignorance of sorts, that will allow images to be reconnected with meaning and signifiers to be reunited with concrete corresponding signifieds. Following a line of postmodern literature begun by Pynchon and Delillo to its logical end, Choke takes the next step into post-postmodern territory, abandoning nihilism and focusing, instead, on the hopeful pseudo-Romantic destruction and rebirth of images and signs.
Jeff Karem, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jennifer Jeffers, PhD (Committee Member)
James Marino, PhD (Committee Member)
41 p.
Literature
Palahniuk; Baudrillard; Choke; simulation; simulacra

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • Fawver, K. D. (2008). Destruction in Search of Hope: Baudrillard, Simulation, and Chuck Palahniuk's Choke [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1219269969

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fawver, Kurt. Destruction in Search of Hope: Baudrillard, Simulation, and Chuck Palahniuk's Choke. 2008. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1219269969.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fawver, Kurt. "Destruction in Search of Hope: Baudrillard, Simulation, and Chuck Palahniuk's Choke." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1219269969

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

csu1219269969
4,001
© 2008, all rights reserved.
This open access ETD is published by Cleveland State University and OhioLINK.