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Survival Of The Fictiveness: The Novel’S Anxieties Over Existence, Purpose, And Believability, Jesse Mank
Survival Of The Fictiveness: The Novel’S Anxieties Over Existence, Purpose, And Believability, Jesse Mank
English Theses
The novel is a problematic literary genre, for few agree on precisely how or why it rose to prominence, nor have there ever been any strict structural parameters established. Terry Eagleton calls it an “anti-genre” that “cannibalizes other literary modes and mixes the bits and pieces promiscuously together” (1). And yet, perhaps because of its inability to be completely defined, the novel best represents modern thought and sensibility. The narrative form speaks to our embrace of individualism while its commodification seems so natural, perhaps even democratic, to a capitalist economy. A historical look at the novel’s inception reveals that the …
Poetic License: The Past In Creative Writing, Mara Faulkner Osb, Cynthia N. Malone, Karen L. Erickson, Scott Richardson
Poetic License: The Past In Creative Writing, Mara Faulkner Osb, Cynthia N. Malone, Karen L. Erickson, Scott Richardson
Headwaters
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On Our Way Out: And Other Stories, Benjamin Champlin Wright Morris
On Our Way Out: And Other Stories, Benjamin Champlin Wright Morris
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
On Our Way Out and other stories is a collection of short fiction banded together with themes of the darkened strange, the missing and the moving, and a sense of place. The characters in these stories try to claw their way to newfound identities, whether it's through a financial transaction, saving a life, or putting a body in the ground. An action with a result is what's needed in these characters' lives. Though, often, the results are not intended. Despite the oddity inherent in these stories and characters, there is something familiar about their plight as ordinary people, something in …
Mother Of Three Drowns Children And Other Stories, Laura L. Stubbins
Mother Of Three Drowns Children And Other Stories, Laura L. Stubbins
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
A collection of short stories depicting fictional characters facing what is absent from their lives.