DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/VTJW-0T30
Defense Date
2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Clint McCown
Second Advisor
Sonja Livingston
Third Advisor
Katherine Nash
Abstract
A collection of short stories and essays linked not by content or characters, but by a central fascination with the ways in which humans interact with, resist, attempt to govern or commune with the natural world, from forests to houseplants and beyond. Our inability to ever truly control the world we live in drives humans into any number of strange beliefs and behaviors, from witchcraft to dissociation, self-destruction and collapse. These essays and stories examine some facets of a centrally human fact: very little of our lives is, in fact, within our power to change.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
11-3-2021