The different shades of liars: four chapters of literary fiction with craft essay

This creative writing thesis has two parts. Part one is a craft paper, examining the craft elements involved in writing about the passage of time in fiction narratives. The second part of this thesis is the prologue and first four chapters of a literary fiction novel. The story follows Virginia, a seventeen-year-old who recently moved to a new town in rural South Georgia for her father’s work as a Methodist pastor. With an already complicated family and social dynamic, her view of the world is further impacted by her ability to see “auras,” physical representation of each person’s true motives and moods through colors that surround them, an ability that she gained as a result of a car accident. With this view of the world, she struggles to cope with the differences around the words and actions of those around her and the true intent that only she can see.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Year dc:date.available

2028

Author dc:creator

• Smith, Laura Catherine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Babine, Karen
• Baker, Sybil; Hunter, Rik
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Time in literature
• Magic realism (Literature)
• Aura--Fiction

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/781

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1956