First Advisor

Charles McLeod

Date of Publication

Spring 6-13-2016

Document Type

Closed Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing

Department

English

Language

English

Subjects

Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction, Assisted suicide -- Fiction, Composers -- Fiction

DOI

10.15760/etd.3017

Physical Description

1 online resource (iii, 92 pages)

Abstract

Still Lives and Set Pieces is a collection of stories that explore concepts of identity under pressure, using meta-fictional approaches and various formal strategies, such as borrowing structural traits from other styles of composition, to fracture POV and add dimensionality. One tale explodes the few moments immediately following an assisted suicide as the surviving partner starts the slow process of self-redefinition. Another wonders if a composer's search for the right five notes to complete his project has more to it than pitch and rhythm. A third sees two would-be criminals, stuck in time, playing darts in the back room of a nameless pub, while they await word of why they are there and what's to happen to them.

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Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17752

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