Thermals: a collection of short stories in an examination of women's experience stories

This thesis examines the concept of women's experience stories as an emerging literary paradigm. It is asserted that experience stories are written out of the raw material of women's lives, that they attempt a re-writing of women's scripts, that they challenge literary conventions, that they involve a fall into awakening, and, finally, that experience stories are subversive of the patriarchy in that they allow the foregrounding of women's experience. The author experiments with the concept of experience story by writing five original short stories narrated in the first person by women in various stages of life. The stories--"You Can't Be Too Careful," "Everybody Else," "Thermals," "Namesake," and "Lifting Up"--are examined to determine whether they meet the criteria of experience story.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

Texas Woman's University

Year dc:date.issued

1990

Author dc:creator

• Sappenfield, Mattie Lieu

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Kobler, Turner S.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Fulwiler, Lavon B.
• Winston, Florence

• Social sciences
• Language, literature, and linguistics

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11274/9035

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:twu-ir.tdl.org:11274/9035