Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe seven story-like chapters of Martyred Cars explore the daily business and labor of a desert junk yard and its brushes with the supernatural. Each chapter takes the point of view of a different character in their own struggles with work, life, and the entities and elements that taunt them from beyond the boundaries of known science. The novel builds these layers of cosmology of archetypal universals, patterns that recur (whether it be in landscape or the pattern on a man's shirt), and a blurring of the boundary between the inanimate and animate, the spiritual and the mundane. Martyred Cars does not seek to solve problems or answer questions, but to view the world from obtuse and fanciful angles, from the point of view of various people, animals, cars, and things residing and consuming at the bottom of the economy, on the perpetual verge of an apocalypse.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Year
- 2004
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Gregovich, Andrea Rose
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Douglas Unger
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1662
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2661