Honors Program Theses
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Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
First Advisor
Jim O’Loughlin
Keywords
Fantasy fiction; Country life--Fiction; Iowa--Fiction;
Abstract
An Hour and a Half from Nowhere is a collection of fantasy short stories set in and around a fictional Iowa town called Elder Grove. The fantastical element within these stories purposely reflects essential elements of Iowa life. Some of these elements are more physical, like the weather or the corn in the fields. Others, however, focus on the more insubstantial aspects of Iowa, like family and a close-knit community. By taking these fundamental pieces of being Iowan and turning them into something magical, I am able to exaggerate the good and bad parts of them, and thus raise questions about what being Iowan really means.
Year of Submission
2021
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
12-2021
Object Description
1 PDF file (47 pages)
Copyright
©2021 Ashley Jean Webb
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Webb, Ashley Jean, "An hour and a half from nowhere: A collection of rural fantasy stories" (2021). Honors Program Theses. 516.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/516
