Date of Award
11-2012
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts
First Advisor
Brian Kiteley
Keywords
Creative writing, Fiction
Abstract
THE WEEK is a collection of short stories. These stories engage the politicized (if not overly political) question of what it means to be human and to be in relation to other humans in the world. Some of the stories are quite compressed; I attempt to create effects in these pieces through subtraction, ellipsis, parataxis, and surprise. Other stories are more sustained, producing voices that address the reader directly or voices that follow the involutions of a thought, dwelling on minute details of consciousness; these pieces play with conventional short story elements (character, plot, rising action, falling action, etc.), although they often “fizzle” or turn sharply to unsettle reader expectation. I have found that it is very difficult to be human. That being human is a problem is both the premise and the conclusion of this book.
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
Joanna Ruocco
Provenance
Received from author
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
148 pgs
Recommended Citation
Ruocco, Joanna, "The Week" (2012). Restricted Access ETDs. 77.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/restrictedetd/77
Copyright date
2012
Discipline
Creative writing