Essence Apparatus
Essence Apparatus is a collection of fiction short stories rooted in poetry and the traditions of ‘the uncanny' and ‘weird' writing. Included are also three expository essays relating to my creative work and its contextual and theoretical underpinnings, going in-depth on my relationship wi...
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ftunivcapetownir:oai:localhost:11427/36556 2023-05-15T18:29:47+02:00 Essence Apparatus Schrattenholz, Maria Dorothea 2021_ application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36556 https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/36556/1/thesis_hum_2021_schrattenholz%20maria%20dorothea.pdf eng eng Faculty of Humanities School of Languages and Literatures http://hdl.handle.net/11427/36556 https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/36556/1/thesis_hum_2021_schrattenholz%20maria%20dorothea.pdf Creative Writing Master Thesis Masters M. A. 2021 ftunivcapetownir 2022-09-13T05:47:53Z Essence Apparatus is a collection of fiction short stories rooted in poetry and the traditions of ‘the uncanny' and ‘weird' writing. Included are also three expository essays relating to my creative work and its contextual and theoretical underpinnings, going in-depth on my relationship with the genre of science fiction and its literary device ‘cognitive estrangement', the tradition of writing the uncanny and the weird, and my Scandinavian and South African sources of inspiration. The short story collection Essence Apparatus feature zombies in Finland; an animalistic metamorphosis on the archipelago of Svalbard; the Chernobyl accident; humans living on Mars returning to their origins on Earth, but also interpersonal relationships between a daughter and her father, two sisters, and lovers. The stories explore the hard problem of consciousness and other philosophical questions; the search for knowledge and a feeling of belonging in a nature not fully understood, and the mechanisms of translocation and transfiguration as a fundamental part of being human. Master Thesis Svalbard University of Cape Town: OpenUCT Svalbard |
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Essence Apparatus is a collection of fiction short stories rooted in poetry and the traditions of ‘the uncanny' and ‘weird' writing. Included are also three expository essays relating to my creative work and its contextual and theoretical underpinnings, going in-depth on my relationship with the genre of science fiction and its literary device ‘cognitive estrangement', the tradition of writing the uncanny and the weird, and my Scandinavian and South African sources of inspiration. The short story collection Essence Apparatus feature zombies in Finland; an animalistic metamorphosis on the archipelago of Svalbard; the Chernobyl accident; humans living on Mars returning to their origins on Earth, but also interpersonal relationships between a daughter and her father, two sisters, and lovers. The stories explore the hard problem of consciousness and other philosophical questions; the search for knowledge and a feeling of belonging in a nature not fully understood, and the mechanisms of translocation and transfiguration as a fundamental part of being human. |
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