Bolth: Essays and Miscellany
Abstract
This thesis is a collection of personal essays centered around the Midwest. The essays circle both rural and cityscapes, while moving through the point of view of a narrator obsessed with postmodernity and all of its horrors. The essays vary in length and form, some hardly appearing to be “essays” at all. The thesis questions the nature of narrative structure and pushes against notions of “total structure” and meaning making.
Description
This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until April 2029 at the earliest.
Keywords
Iowa, Chicago, Postmodernism, Narrative, Essay, Rural