Date of Award
Spring 2000
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Committee Director
Sheri Reynolds
Committee Member
Janet Peery
Committee Member
Collin Brooke
Abstract
The Book of Changes is a collection of twelve short stories which correspond to the hexagrams of the ancient Chinese oracle, the I Ching. Each hexagram in the I Ching indicates an answer to a question. When a line moves, the hexagram changes into another hexagram. Thus my twelve stories represent two hexagrams; one moving and one at rest. In a way, each story moves, changing into its opposite. Like the I Ching, my stories illustrate the dynamics of dualistic oppositions. Through a process of accident, discovery, decision, and action, endings become beginnings, lies result in truth, fate engenders free will, dispersion leads to gathering, and false hope brings true belief. Unlike the I Ching, my stories are not a means of oracular divination. The future, like language, memory, and truth, is slippery, intangible. Instead, my stories present readers with the potential contained within a single moment, a reflection of the readers own hopes, desires, or fears.
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DOI
10.25777/cyky-f661
ISBN
9780599754775
Recommended Citation
Jolemore, Nancy H..
"The Book of Changes"
(2000). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/cyky-f661
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/69