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Romance and Identity in Fight Club

Wiker, Jacob Thomas
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377205985

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2013, Master of Arts in English, Cleveland State University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club has been the subject of much critical contention over the years. Typical analyses of the novel revolve around its existential or nihilist comedy, homoerotic elements, or commentary on consumer culture. However, no critics to date have studied Fight Club’s romantic elements, despite indications by the author that the novel is, in fact, intended to be a romance. This study reimagines and interprets Fight Club, the novel, as a work with romantic elements essential to the structure of the narrative itself. Additionally, it studies the complex interplay of Palahniuk’s romantic elements with questions of gender identity and masculinity. It is concluded that, in Fight Club, romance drives the narrator’s quest for identity.
Jennifer Jeffers, PhD (Committee Chair)
Adam Sonstegard, PhD (Committee Member)
James Marino, PhD (Committee Member)
36 p.
American Literature; Literature
Chuck Palahniuk; Fight Club; romance; romantic structure

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  • Wiker, J. T. (2013). Romance and Identity in Fight Club [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377205985

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wiker, Jacob. Romance and Identity in Fight Club. 2013. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377205985.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wiker, Jacob. "Romance and Identity in Fight Club." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377205985

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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