Term of Award
Summer 2020
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English (M.A.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Literature and Philosophy
Committee Chair
Olivia Carr Edenfield
Committee Member 1
Joe Pellegrino
Committee Member 2
Brad McDuffie
Committee Member 3
Mary Villeponteaux
Abstract
This thesis analyzes the thematic links between three of J. D. Salinger’s short stories published in Nine Stories (“A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” “Down at the Dinghy,” and “Teddy”), ultimately arguing that it is a short-story cycle rooted in the quandary posed by the suicide of Seymour Glass. This conclusion is reached by assessing the influence of T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” on these stories, something that is understood through the Marxist frame of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle.
OCLC Number
1200233692
Catalog Permalink
https://galileo-georgiasouthern.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01GALI_GASOUTH/1fi10pa/alma9916377149802950
Recommended Citation
Geddy, Margaret E., "Nine Stories and the Society of the Spectacle: An Exploration into the Alienation of the Individual in the Post-War Era" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2143.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/2143
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
Included in
American Literature Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons, Metaphysics Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons
