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Neither / Nor: Nine Stories and a Novella
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Hessman, Travis Michael
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291178542
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Year and Degree
2010, MFA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Abstract
“Neither/Nor: Nine Stories and a Novella” is a 166-page creative thesis composed of a 61-page novella and nine short stories, between 3 and 20 pages each. These pieces are thematically linked, all of them highlighting gaps in experiential reality along the subjective divide (per my readings of Wittgenstein, Lyotard, Nietzsche, et al). They all focus on two characters of often indeterminate gender, mostly unnamed, discussing, confronting, or lamenting these gaps. These voids-between take the form of a mile-deep cavern, an inch of uncrossable space, walls, nonexistent trains, nonexistent taxis, the language itself, etc. To convey/recreate these gaps, I have employed several experimental forms, techniques, and themes, including visual effects, a “mad lib” format, graphs, equations, and whitespace. The resulting collection should cohere to provide a narrative account of these interpersonal existential issues in the tradition of John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Samuel Beckett, and Steve Tomasula.
Committee
Robert Miltner, PhD (Advisor)
Mary Biddinger, PhD (Committee Member)
Robert Pope, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
166 p.
Subject Headings
Literature
Keywords
experiential reality
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indeterminate gender
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Hessman, T. M. (2010).
Neither / Nor: Nine Stories and a Novella
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291178542
APA Style (7th edition)
Hessman, Travis.
Neither / Nor: Nine Stories and a Novella.
2010. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291178542.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Hessman, Travis. "Neither / Nor: Nine Stories and a Novella." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291178542
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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