Record Details
The sweet by and by
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The sweet by and by |
| Names |
Ross, Jon (Jon Montgomery)
(creator) Daugherty, Tracy D. (advisor) |
| Date Issued | 2014-05-13 (iso8601) |
| Note | Graduation date: 2014 |
| Abstract | These three essays question the nature, origin, and transmissibility of meaning by closely scrutinizing a life and the art, ideas, and other cultural productions passing through that life. Memoir narratives drive the three pieces, supplemented by cultural criticism, film theory, rock journalism, ekphrasis, philosophical inquiry, midrash, lies, retractions, descriptions of imagined scenes and poorly remembered events, faulty logic, anti-capitalist rants, claims taken from tabloid magazines, and speeches given by fictional androids. They were written with a pencil that was sharpened at both ends, stabbing the author as it marked the world (figuratively speaking). The essays proceed by digression: they make tangents to the straight line, which inevitably arc back across, swimming in tragicomic sine waves. Thematically, they are concerned with sacrifice, betrayal, remorse, desire, redemption, and the failure of language to transmit meaning. |
| Genre | Thesis/Dissertation |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/48732 |
