Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Recurring characters, including two reformed linemen, one megalomaniacal preacher and another kind one, a misunderstood young Wiccan, a grizzled alligator poacher, and a formidable ex-trucker-turned-bartender meet and mingle throughout this collection. Many of the stories use narrative experimentation--for example, broken, distracted structure in a story about teenagers rampaging, or eviscerated language in a post-apocalyptic vignette--to examine themes of community, history, and faith. Linking them all is the lake, which binds them geographically and becomes a symbol of their many different lives, all flowing together from the primordial, swampy headwaters, through the residential calmness, to the dam where they break into rainbows above the spray.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.F.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Campus Access Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English Language and Literatures
- Year
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Culpepper, Jackson Campbell
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Elise Blackwell
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © 2012, Jackson Campbell Culpepper
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/844
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-1845