Date of Award

6-2017

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts

First Advisor

Selah Saterstrom

Keywords

Creative writing, Fiction

Abstract

A Healthy Interest in the Lives of Others is a collection of short stories about gossip, community, and the making of identity. Animated via the relational aspects of identity, the stories are autofiction as I define it, all asking the question: how we use language and story to make ourselves and our worlds? The characters’ messy and sometimes thwarted navigations are reflected in and exacerbated by the use of narrative constraints formulated early in composition process. The constraint must be connected to the content and capable of holding the story’s form.

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. This work may only be accessed by members of the University of Denver community. The work is provided by permission of the author for individual research purposes only and may not be further copied or distributed. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Teresa Carmody

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

137 pgs

Discipline

Creative writing

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