Abstract
dc:description.abstractThere is a tradition of experimentation in fiction. From Laurence Sterne’s <u>Tristram Shandy</u> to B.S. Johnson’s <u>The Unfortunates</u>, we see an exploration in content and delivery of story. In Sterne’s <u>Tristram Shandy</u>, he uses tactics such as drawings and deletion of pages. In Johnson’s <u>The Unfortunates</u>, he shifts control to the readers by giving them the opportunity to shuffle sections of the book. Here, as the reader, you have a choice. You can read <u>Treatment Plan</u> as it is arranged, or you can jumble the sections labeled with an image in any order within the dated sections. What must remain in order are the sections that begin with a date. The book is a medical-model case study fashioned in experimental fiction. The cropped images which indicate the shuffled sections were taken of two stained glass windows at Salisbury Cathedral in the United Kingdom. *Please note that <u>Treatment Plan</u> is meant to be read in its printed form which consists of twenty four sections, twelve of which may be shuffled within the dated sections.*
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Creative Writing
- Department dc:contributor.department
- English
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2010
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Cutler, Betsy
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- D'Aguiar, Frederick M.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Falco, Edward C.
- Mann, Jeffrey A.
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en_US
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-05122010-080848
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/77474