Date of Award

2011

Publication Type

Master Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Department

English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing

Keywords

Literature.

Supervisor

Holbrook, Susan (English Language, Literature and Creative Writing)

Rights

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Abstract

Lists Of All You Left Behind is a novella and an accompanying critical essay that together attempt to understand the relationship in contemporaneity between what people consume, culturally speaking, and who they are. The novel's narrative details a central character's growth toward an experience of the world that--while remaining open to the possibility that mass culture may still assist us in constructing "some" kind of valid contemporary meaning--is authentic and direct. The work proposes, in short, an interdependent relationship between cultural consumption and personal identity: culture both constructs our subjectivity in the world and reflects it.

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