- Title
- The memory altar
- Creator
- Alexander-McKenna, Hilary Jane
- ThesisAdvisor
- Mason, Paul
- ThesisAdvisor
- Wessels, Paul
- Subject
- Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa
- Subject
- Diaries -- Authorship
- Subject
- South African fiction (English) 21st century
- Subject
- South African essays (English) 21st century
- Subject
- South African essays (English) History and criticism
- Subject
- South African fiction (English) History and criticism
- Subject
- Yuknavitch, Lidia Criticism and interpretation
- Subject
- American fiction Criticism and interpretation
- Subject
- COVID-19 (Disease) in literature
- Date
- 2022-04-07
- Type
- Academic theses
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/263533
- Identifier
- vital:53636
- Description
- My thesis is a novella that casts a sideways glance at the real world that at times seems stranger than fiction. The novella is written as a work of realistic fiction, with a plot, characters, timelines and location placed in present time, reflecting real current events. My work is strongly influenced by writers such as Ivan Vladislavić whose Portrait with Keys uses a slice of life narrative voice that observes overlays of public and private realities; Marguerite Duras’ use of cinematic storytelling and deeply personal exposure in The Lover and Yann Andréa Steiner; Kate Zambreno’s depiction of inner chaos against the chaos of an anonymous city in Green Girl; Otessa Moshfegh who makes the minutiae of the day-to-day seem significant in My Year of Rest and Relaxation; and Samuel Beckett’s finely crafted streams of consciousness, in his works of prose and drama, revealing the intimate perspectives of insiders.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures, 2022
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (189 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages and Literatures
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Alexander-McKenna, Hilary Jane
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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