Abstract
dc:description.abstractWomen of the Mere is a literary-horror short story collection imagining contemporary, Southern women who have a draw toward the unpredictability and danger of the macabre. Based on personal experiences but fictionalized through the poetic lens of negative capability, each story takes place in modern Tennessee and follows female protagonists with uncanny, “familiar”-like connections to animals that are stereotypically portrayed as horrifying or dangerous. These women feed giant snakes, chase hallucinations, menstruate gray blood, and sneak rats into hotel rooms. My craft essay examines how negative capability can be used to create horror on both a sentence-level and thematic scale, based upon David Jauss’s On Fiction Writing and using examples from my own work as well as others that have influenced my horror writing.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Year dc:date.available
- 2023
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- York, Jessica
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Balazs, Thomas
- Baker, Sybil; Einstein, Sarah
- College of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
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dc:rights- Language dc:language
- English, eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/587
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1751