Out of the body

This thesis contains four original pieces of short fiction and one short essay on the craft of writing fiction. The short stories range in topics from a young man who doesn’t want to work in his father’s business to a writer who comes face to face – and often shares bodies – with his own characters. Two of the stories are literary fiction, one is metafiction, and one is science-fiction. All four stories are written in the first-person point of view. The craft essay examines the prevalence and implications of the self-aware first-person narrator in fiction. This particular narrative style was found to be intrinsic to many stories written in the first-person, and this discovery led to the incorporation of self-aware elements to the narrators of the original stories presented in this collection.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Duvall, Benjamin Louis

Contributors dc:contributor

• Balázs, Thomas
• Baker, Sybil; Shaheen, Aaron
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Creative writing -- Fiction
• Fiction -- Technique

Licence

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/18

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1018