Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of English
Advisor
Leni Zumas
Date of Award
Winter 3-25-2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Creative Writing
Department
English
Physical Description
1 online resource (ii, 92 pages)
Subjects
Isolation (Philosophy) -- Fiction, Loneliness -- Fiction, Solitude -- Fiction
DOI
10.15760/etd.853
Abstract
This collection of short stories takes its name from various islands historically believed to exist and at one time or other located on maps, sometimes remaining on them for centuries, but later removed after they were proved to be illusory. Reports of these islands usually came from sailors as they explored new realms, mistaking actual islands for imaginary ones or by geographical error. Illusions can persist unchallenged for ages. A similar yet modern illusion is the persistence of vision, a phenomenon by which an afterimage, say, on a screen, is thought to persist on the retina for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second. The characters in these stories live their isolated lives as after-image phantoms on islands that either never existed or no longer exist.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9366
Recommended Citation
Buckner, Marie, "Phantom Islands A Collection of Short Stories" (2013). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 853.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/853
10.15760/etd.853