Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
5-2016
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
English
Degree Program
English, MA
Committee Chair
Petrosino, Kiki
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Golding, Alan
Committee Member
Golding, Alan
Committee Member
Gibson, John
Author's Keywords
poetry; video games; postmodern; manuals; simulation; failure
Abstract
This is a creative thesis composed of two components: 1) a critical introduction that contextualizes and supports the project of the second component, 2) a book manuscript of poetry. The project explores genre concerns of poetry by developing experimental prose poems that incorporate video game themes, language, and instructional writing. The project presents the interplay of the notions of control and failure to examine the borders between simulation (games) and reality (the world outside of games). The poems are constructed around the idea of designed failure, through which, the introduction argues, their status as poetry is inherently threatened, and they run the risk of actually becoming the forms that they imitate: game instruction manuals. The project argues that the poems reveal the porousness of borders between simulation and reality, because failure of form and meaning is inevitable.
Recommended Citation
Rich, Bobby, "New game+" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2471.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/2471
