Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>These stories attempt to follow John Gardner’s instruction to create a dream that will engage the reader. Mirroring the goal that an author has to create a relationship with his audience, each story in turn focuses on emotional details that convey the characters’ feelings of isolation or, alternatively, inclusion in their communities. In the first story, a young man tries to recreate his father’s king cake. In the next, a middle school girl fixates on her relationship with her sister. Trying to recapture the memory of a lost daughter, a man searches for the perfect nectar snowball. A mom, then, comes to terms with her parenting skills after there is trouble at her son’s mother’s morning out daycare. Finally, a man tries to rebuild his relationship with his daughter by taking care of a fawn. Each main character yearns for a relationship, as I, the writer, hope to connect with the reader of these stories by crafting details whose emotional quality evoke the audience’s memory.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Masters Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Melancon, Frederick C
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Steven Barthelme
- Andrew Milward
- Martina Sciolino
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/146
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1164