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Grieve If You Want, Travis Scott Ray
Grieve If You Want, Travis Scott Ray
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This collection of short stories is trying to say something about empathy. It’s trying to connect with readers in an effort to convey some small kind of emotion the characters are experiencing. It’s about the difficulty we all have connecting and communicating with each other and ourselves.
Watermark: A Short-Story Cycle With An Introduction To The Genre And Scholarship Including A Close Reading Of The Text, Wanda Elizabeth Huber
Watermark: A Short-Story Cycle With An Introduction To The Genre And Scholarship Including A Close Reading Of The Text, Wanda Elizabeth Huber
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Watermark, a short story cycle, as defined by Forest Ingram, Susan Garland Mann, and James Nagel, consists of twenty-five individually complete and interrelated stories and vignettes. Along with common characters and settings, the individual stories within Watermark resonate with themes of violence, love, cyclical behavior, amputated potential, self-denial, poverty, and imagination as escape. Through a process that Ingram calls recurrent patterns of development, these themes, amplified through repeated intertextual imagery, shape a larger narrative that conveys the developing artistic potential of Liz, one of many recurring characters. Typical of the short-story cycle, the title serves as a central unifying symbol. …