Private Lives and Glancing Blows: A Philosophy of Disconnection

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dc.contributor.advisorNorman, Howarden_US
dc.contributor.authorDavis, Katherine Annen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCreative Writingen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-03T05:40:36Z
dc.date.available2009-07-03T05:40:36Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractThe following stories, letters, and novel excerpt explore the impossibility of reconnecting to the past. They examine moments in their characters' lives when the desire for such a connection is quite strong--it means wanting to have potential, wanting to belong somewhere, and wanting not to be lonely. Questions of truth in memory and perception also emerge. I explore this desire by situating characters at different points in their lives, so they are looking back across varying distances: for the narrator in "Reasons I Got Up This Morning, going back means a return to the day before, and in "Gustav Has Glancing Blow" it means a return to childhood. The boy in "My Collector" wants entire histories preserved so that they are alive forever and he can be part of them.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9336
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledFine Artsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledchronic painen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcollectoren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDMVen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEdmund Burkeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledevasionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMr. Whippyen_US
dc.titlePrivate Lives and Glancing Blows: A Philosophy of Disconnectionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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