Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Merrell, Susan | Hegi, Ursula | Smith, Dinitia
Date
2012-12-01
Keywords
Literature
Department
Department of Creative Writing and Literature
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71520
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This is a collection of stories loosely centered around loss of control. Some of the narrators suffer psychological breakdowns, such as eating disorders and schizophrenia, while others suffer from external forces. The loose theme is intentional, for the sake of experimentation with a variety of voices and circumstances. Some of these characters scrape against the edge of the revelation that there is logic in their chaos. Others miss the epiphany entirely. All of the characters in these stories speak in dash format and there are no quotation marks used to indicate when someone is speaking. This decision was made because of my conviction that literature is a reflection of the subconscious rather than spoken reality. | 118 pages
Recommended Citation
Crane, Genevieve, "Luck, and Other Disasters" (2012). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 726.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/726