Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
First Advisor
Janice Lee
Term of Graduation
Spring 2023
Date of Publication
7-26-2023
Document Type
Closed Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing
Department
English
Language
English
Subjects
Geese -- Fiction
DOI
10.15760/etd.3621
Physical Description
1 online resource (v, 88 pages)
Abstract
This is a collection of 24 micro and short stories all involving geese. Tropes are subverted in humorous and absurd ways as geese (in all their borrowed forms) occupy the narrative limelight. Fables, historical texts, melodramas, and more are decontextualized and defamiliarized as geese occupy familiar spaces typically constrained by text, language, or other created forms of being (representation). Borrowed forms and structures inhabited by geese expose the absurdity of human projection. Human perspectives are also forced to coexist, tolerate, and merge with the existence of geese.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/40854
Recommended Citation
Thompson, Tia-Theo, "Geese" (2023). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 6463.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.3621
Comments
This thesis is only available to students, faculty and staff at PSU.