Date of Award
Fall 11-22-2024
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts
First Advisor
Clark Davis
Second Advisor
Roddy MacInnis
Third Advisor
William S. Howard
Fourth Advisor
Brian Kiteley
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
All Rights Reserved.
Keywords
Creative writing, Literature
Abstract
Fossil Plant is a lyrical consideration of familial loss and personal grief, as well as a meditation on ecological and societal grief in the face of the continual violence of intrusive degradation and loss, and how these combine to form a kind of personal narrative. The text attempts to navigate absence without becoming lost entirely within the wound of absence. The introductory essay which precedes the creative manuscript attempts to view the aforementioned topics in relation to the work of Paul Auster and Samuel Beckett, among others, particularly in their respective novels City of Glass and Watt, as well as through a theoretical framework provided by writers such as Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, John Cage, and Simone Weil.
Copyright Date
11-2024
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Rights Holder
Gregory Blake Guffey
Provenance
Received from author
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
Extent
143 pgs
File Size
545 KB
Recommended Citation
Guffey, Gregory Blake, "Fossil Plant" (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2508.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2508
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