Soundings

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dc.contributor.advisorCasey, Mauden_US
dc.contributor.authorKnowlton, Daniel Aaronen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-28T07:06:00Z
dc.date.available2013-06-28T07:06:00Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThis collection of stories features characters who "sound" their pasts, their childhoods, their families, and their obsessions, sometimes surfacing with gained clarity, and sometimes losing themselves to the depths. The collection takes its title from the opening story where the narrator becomes increasingly obsessed with tracking a group of whales by sound. The title holds the literal meaning of whales sounding (diving), and the metaphorical idea of delving into some unknown or revisited place or memory, sending out a voice or a thought, and listening to the echoes. The ensuing stories further explore this theme in a mix of realistic and fantastical settings, from a cub scout pack and a small town church, to communities inhabited by a Father Time character and miniature doppelgangers. The collection also holds a particularly strong attachment to the forests, coastline, and small towns of New England.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14141
dc.subject.pqcontrolledFine artsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledFolkloreen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDaniel Knowltonen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDiveen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHunting Povaksen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledshort storiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSoundingsen_US
dc.titleSoundingsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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