Date of Award
Spring 2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Program/Concentration
Creative Writing
Committee Director
Michael Pearson
Committee Member
Luisa Igloria
Committee Member
Blake Bailey
Call Number for Print
Special Collections; LD4331.E64 W42 2011
Abstract
This series of connected essays explores the aesthetic of fragmentation, not as a means to disrupt narrative, but as a means to stretch that narrative. It includes both lyric and traditional forms, along with a series of flash essays that puncture the present action with moments from the past. The essays vary tonally, from the serious to the comic, and though they are connected through first person narration, they are more connected thematically, through an exploration of sexuality, faith, idealism and its loss, and the ways in which gender is performed.
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DOI
10.25777/ng9c-ez48
Recommended Citation
Weddington, Heather M..
"The Disappearing Disease"
(2011). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/ng9c-ez48
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/459