Date of Award
2010-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Creative Writing
Advisor(s)
Jeffrey Sirkin
Abstract
In The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard identifies narrative as a distinct type of knowledge created and reshaped by individuals as nodal points. The novel All the Things I've Been explores this paradigm in Postmodern thought by following a narrator disconnected from ostensible reality as he attempts to create a new explanatory narrative to excuse his own misdeeds. Living in a subterranean hole, he draws on elements of the literature he hoards about him to construct a plot that will account for a past he is unwilling or unable to confront.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2010
File Size
211 pages
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Richard Helmling
Recommended Citation
Helmling, Richard, "All the Things I've Been" (2010). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 2498.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/2498