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| Title: | The Prescribed Burn |
| Authors: | Wirstiuk, Laryssa Andrea |
| Advisors: | Feitell, Merrill |
| Department/Program: | Creative Writing |
| Type: | Thesis |
| Sponsors: | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) |
| Keywords: | 0593
Literature, English
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| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | Veda is a young Ukrainian-American woman from New Jersey who is creative, insightful, and observant. Her concerns are ordinary yet pressing, and she struggles with obsession, physical distance, and personal identity.
Though she loves home, life forces her to leave again and again. Veda is moved by Wildwood, the Pine Barrens, the PATH train, and the Meadowlands. Memories of her favorite landscape ground her, no matter where she happens to be.
Veda's parents are a steady, dependable presence, but her peer relationships are her greatest source of interest and inner conflict. Madsy is her best friend and confidante, Arthur is her first love, and Theo inspires such tumultuous passion that he nearly ruins her.
Art is her redemptive force. In order to grow, Veda must simultaneously destroy and create. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9717 |
| Appears in Collections: | English Theses and Dissertations
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