Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1988

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Coyle, William

Abstract

The making and the unmaking of the artist manque is the central theme of five successive novels of John Hawkes from The Blood Oranges (1972) to Virginie: Her Two Lives (1981). The main characters in each of these five works are "artists" in one form or another. Each of them is a fragment of Hawkes himself, a detached figment of his imagination; they and their aesthetic-erotic obsessions had to be imagined by their creator. In a special sense, these characters are innocent because they are unaware of the extent and reasons their inspirations are tainted at the source, their psyches; and they, unlike Hawkes, cannot detach themselves from their own fantasies and their desires to realize them, whatever the risk. No wonder then the suffering and destruction they inflict on themselves and others.

Extent

84 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1988.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14478

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