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O! Beloved Orphan

Breit, Matt
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1744305224762016

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2025, MFA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
What are we alienated, disenchanted moderns supposed to do with all of "this"? O! Beloved Orphan attempts to answer this question by reconciling a range of dualities, both personal and cultural (e.g., subjective/objective, fiction/nonfiction, spiritual/scientific, fantasy/fact, etc.). To do so the text intermixes a range of genres from autofiction and literary analysis to experimental fiction and myth, placing it in the tradition of collage and hybrid genre works. The result is an invented, metamodern genre (the autofictive multiversal memoirography). Research on the Japanese zuihitsu informed several iterations of the early text. Additionally, this work is a direct exploration and application of literary values and inquiry outlined in Italo Calvino's Six Memo's for the Next Millennium and Ursula LeGuin's essay, "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction."
Hilary Plum (Advisor)
Catherine Wing (Committee Member)
Anthony Tognazzini (Committee Member)
161 p.
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  • Breit, M. (2025). O! Beloved Orphan [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1744305224762016

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Breit, Matt. O! Beloved Orphan. 2025. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1744305224762016.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Breit, Matt. "O! Beloved Orphan." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2025. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1744305224762016

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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