Record Details
A Novel Elysium
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | A Novel Elysium |
| Names |
Anderson, Evan Crichton
(creator) Kunert, Steven (advisor) |
| Date Issued | 2014-07-18 (iso8601) |
| Note | Honors Bachelor of Arts (HBA) in English |
| Abstract | As a metafictional work of science fiction literature, A Novel Elysium explores the timelessness of both the human mind and its literary surroundings, comparing the self-awareness of its characters to the sometimes tragic or empowering metaphysical realizations of human beings. Within this framework, any concrete place or time is unimportant; temporal and physical locations are created by the relations of the characters to their world and also by the relations of the readers to this text. The subjects are art, intention, pleasure, perception, and existence, and each character comes to know these or become undone by them at the conclusion of A Novel Elysium, just as the reader comes to realize they are being directly addressed, rather than shown an unrelated fictional tale. Drawing on the full imaginative and mnemonic powers of its characters, the work abounds with references both to other literary classics and to itself, creating a semi-circular dialectic about the perceived relationships between past, present, future, and fictional and non-fictional reality. |
| Genre | Thesis |
| Topic | literature |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/50598 |
