Tiny Ruins: Short Prose Works

Tiny Ruins is a collection of short prose works consisting of flash fiction, prose poetry, and vignettes. The collection examines the everyday experiences of being an urban millennial, including current electronic methods of communication, such as Twitter and text messaging. Short prose forms proved conducive to the millennial experience because they are able to accurately mimic the ways in which we connect in the era of instantaneous communication. The short prose works explore themes of communication, alienation, social anxiety, relationships, and gender. Secondary themes include technology, surveillance, privacy, and dysfunctional social spaces. Many of the pieces depict the everyday experiences of two sisters, Janie and Alana. These experiences don’t always have a beginning, middle, and end, but rather illustrate encounters with people and the world that are often fragmentary, fleeting, and inconclusive.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Writing

Grantor

University of Saskatchewan

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Haldoupis, Nicole

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Lynes, Jeanette

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Voitkovska, Ludmilla
• Rochester, Joanne
• Brenna, Beverly

• short prose
• flash fiction
• prose poetry
• vignette

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10388/7355

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:harvest.usask.ca:10388/7355