Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe goal of this thesis is to explore Victor Schklovsky's idea of defamiliarization from his essay "Art as Technique” and Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of polyphony as defined in his book Problems in Dostoevsky's Poetics through the practice of writing short fiction. The stories collected in the thesis explore these ideas by taking advantage of different approaches to narrative form and content and exploring current trends in literary fiction including fabulism, flash-fiction, and non-narrative fiction. The thesis demonstrates different ways to approach defamiliarization and polyphony in short fiction and shows that these techniques can be used to vastly different results in the discourse of short fiction.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts in English
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Myers, Andrew Daniel
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Michael Czyzniejewski
Subjects
dc:subject × 6Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © Andrew Daniel Myers
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/1132
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-2133