Date of Graduation
Spring 2012
Degree
Master of Arts in English
Department
English
Committee Chair
Linda Trinh-Moser
Abstract
The materials included herein are five pieces of short fiction developed over several semesters of my graduate studies. The stories are meant to demonstrate various elements of fiction I have been working to cultivate in my work, such as defamiliarization, polyphony, unreliable narration, and epistolary narrative. I have also attempted to incorporate elements from different genres of fiction, including Noir, science fiction, and speculative fiction into traditional literary forms.
Keywords
science fiction, defamiliarization, unreliable narration, polyphony, epistolary narrative
Subject Categories
English Language and Literature
Copyright
© Robert Bruce Pickering
Recommended Citation
Pickering, Robert Bruce, "Pineapple Upside Down Boy (& Other Figures of Note in the Field of Curiosity)" (2012). MSU Graduate Theses. 2525.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/2525
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