Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis contains approximately one-third (four chapters) of Turnkey, a mainstream novel set in the present day about a correctional officer who tries to balance his life working in prisons with his home life. The protagonist, Teague, struggles to maintain his humanity while engulfed in a very inhumane and dehumanizing environment. He searches for answers in similar ways to Sartre's "Self-taught man" and Roquentin in Nausea. Teague's existentialism creates problems as he attempts to keep his two worlds from colliding and tries to find some way to keep himself and his family from deterioration and destruction.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts in English
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year
- 1996
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Temen, Bruce Daiquiri
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Wayne Blackmon
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © Bruce Daiquiri Temen
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/275
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-1276