Perverted in Neon

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dc.contributor.authorSiebel, Patrick Alanen
dc.contributor.committeechairVollmer, James Men
dc.contributor.committeememberFalco, Edward Cen
dc.contributor.committeememberLavender-Smith, Evanen
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-12T06:00:07Zen
dc.date.available2023-06-12T06:00:07Zen
dc.date.issued2018-06-11en
dc.description.abstractPerverted in Neon is collection of short fictions engaged with various facets of modern popular culture. In its stories, a washed-up rocker enlists the aid of pigeons to deliver messages to his estranged wife; a writer obsessed with finding out what “really” happened to Andy Kaufman is pushed into the fringes of his own life; a kid on restriction discovers a secret level to a video game that threatens to change the nature of his reality; a woman on Airbnb advertises her home—and her life—to potential house renters. The characters throughout this collection tread among the desperate and downtrodden, often seeing some faint impression of hope in the distance, something worth continuing to fight for. Perverted in Neon challenges traditional distinctions of literary genres, often incorporating elements of non-fictional pop culture into fictional worlds, and vice-versa. The stories throughout aim to interrogate some notion of emotional maturity, or lack thereof—characters who think they understand the world, but quickly realize that they understand only their most immediate desires.en
dc.description.degreeMFAen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:15702en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/115397en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
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dc.subjectpop cultureen
dc.subjectstoriesen
dc.subjectabsurden
dc.subjectmusicen
dc.subjectvideo gamesen
dc.subjectformal experimentationen
dc.subjecthybrid formsen
dc.subjectperformance arten
dc.titlePerverted in Neonen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCreative Writingen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMFAen

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