This project analyzes is the connecting themes and stylistic tendencies of Jack O'Connell's novels and includes a personal interview with the author. O'Connell's novels, Box Nine, Wireless, The Skin Palace, and Word Made Flesh, have been classified as crime novels but this project demonstrates that they transcend that genre and tackle important postmodern questions about language and identity. O'Connell locates all of his works in the rundown industrial town of Quinsigamond, a doppelganger for his hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Lewis, Matthew Taylor

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01D338M

Advisor

• Walsh, James
• Menides, Laura Jehn

Year

• 2001

Date created

• 2001-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-12-12