In the house of beauty

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Title In the house of beauty
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department English
Author Rogers, Erin
Date 2010-12
Description This collection of short fiction was written to explore the limits of genre, the page, and language itself. It is an exploration and discovery of space. A peek into the in between. An examination of the unknown, the negative, the experiences that never were. It is a contradiction. A fleeting moment in time. A depiction of creation. Reined into four separate sections, this collection interweaves stories of the body and self, worship and betrayal, the domestic, and the undiscovered. Fiction becomes nonfiction becomes lyric becomes prose again. These stories seek to expose the nerves of language. Here words are seduction, negation, collision. The mouths that speak are those of gods and the dead, children and lovers, aviators and prophets. In the house of beauty language may dart across the page, slow into columns, or rest atop an image. This collection means to examine the material reality of a page: white space, alignments, order and categorization. Some pieces collage together found text;, illustrations, or photographs to re-examine how image and text; collide on a page. The last section contains video / text; pieces that exist outside the space of the page. These videos attempt to further explore the experience of reading. To confront and challenge the linear idea of time, to make the familiar strange. A piano key. A bare lightbulb. The blinking heart of the elevator light. The very appearance of words themselves. Knock and it will answer.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Experimental writing; Fiction; Mythology; Non-fiction; Religion; Women's studies
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Fine Arts
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Erin Rogers 2010; Part IV of this thesis contains five video files.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 5,579,433 bytes
Identifier us-etd3,532
Source original in Marriott Library Special Collections ; PE27.5 2010 .R64
ARK ark:/87278/s6v418xf
Setname ir_etd
ID 194661
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v418xf
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