Award Date
1-1-2004
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
First Committee Member
Douglas Unger
Number of Pages
219
Abstract
The 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.
Keywords
Cars; Martyred; Novel; Original writing
Controlled Subject
American literature
File Format
File Size
6123.52 KB
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Gregovich, Andrea Rose, "Martyred Cars" (2004). UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations. 1662.
http://dx.doi.org/10.25669/p38y-ciaw
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