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Keywords

Iowa--Fiction; Iowa; Fiction; Academic theses;

Abstract

This work of creative writing consists of two stories, each of which concerns characters in closed communities in Iowa: an apartment building and a small town. The stories play with the concepts of interconnectedness, multiple perspectives, linearity, and "emergent meaning"-that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. The first story is comprised of interconnected third-person threads and alternate perspective views. The second story is concerned with multiple first-person vignettes dealing with interpretations of shared experiences. These stories imagine the concept of perspective as a moveable, free-floating "mind camera," able to follow any character at will, viewing the same events from different angles.

Year of Submission

2006

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Department of English Language and Literature

First Advisor

Grant Tracey

Second Advisor

Vince Gotera

Third Advisor

Julie Husband

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The creative works referenced in this graduate thesis, consisting of pages 1-88, currently are not being made available in electronic format through UNI ScholarWorks.

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Date Original

2006

Object Description

1 PDF file (15 leaves)

Language

en

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application/pdf

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