Foreign Object

<p><em>Foreign Object</em> comprises the first part of a novel series that seeks to complicate the concepts of the Anthropocene epoch in fiction through its investigations of form and narrative, as well as the invasive properties of a recursive society determined to ignore or normalise climate events. The narrative of <em>Foreign Object</em> focuses on John Salmon, a university professor who has been infected by an ancient spore, and the bizarre series of events that follow in his life. <em>Foreign Object</em> is also about Salmon’s attempts to write his own novel about the Anthropocene, and the maddening habits of thought and practice this instils within him. <em>Foreign Object</em> is a distressed novel about recursion and the text interacts with metatextual ideas on the page, which disrupt and commune with the mythology of whole narrative. This section, Accumulation, concerns Salmon’s growing alienation from the madness of real life. The critical introduction discusses the current state of the Anthropocene novel and the theoretical grounding these novels are concerned with.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Year

2024

Author dc:creator

• Whelan, David

Contributors dc:contributor

• Joanna Howard
• Patrick Cottrell
• R. D. Perry
• Thomas Nail

• Novel
• Speculative
• Anthropocene
• Arts and Humanities
• Creative Writing
• Fiction

Statement dc:rights

• <p>Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.</p>

Language dc:language

English (eng)

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2386

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:etd-3375