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CONNECTIONS. (ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES)
Abstract
Connections is a collection of ten short stories and twelve photographs submitted to satisfy the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The fiction is approximately forty thousand words, covering two hundred twenty-eight typescript pages. The dissertation begins with an Introduction which discusses the process of writing the stories, the sense of connection the writer experiences in relation to her characters, and also discusses the stories individually. The themes of the stories emerge out of the lives of the women characters, the major thematic concerns being the mother-daughter relationship, sexuality, and death defined not in apposition, but by integration, unity, and the inter-connectedness of the characters' sense of themselves as women. The Introduction also works with the separate and distinct form, photography, unifying it with the fiction, the connection, this time, being between the verbal and the visual.
Subject Area
Fine Arts|Literature
Recommended Citation
JOHNSON, LINNEA, "CONNECTIONS. (ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES)" (1981). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8118164.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8118164