Date of Graduation
Spring 2020
Degree
Master of Arts in English
Department
English
Committee Chair
Michael Czyzniejewski
Abstract
This collection of creative writing explores themes and subjects relating to feminism, sexuality, performativity, societal woes, popular culture, and the different ways we communicate. The individual pieces often examine women’s empowerment and lack thereof. These stories, essays, and poems are introduced by a critical work situating the contents of the thesis within greater literary traditions, such as Viktor Shklovsky’s defamiliarization, which I claim can function on the structural level as well as the story level, and his theory of the Chronotope; time and place are significant threads I follow from one genre to the next to create a cohesive collection of multi- and cross-genre pieces of creative writing.
Keywords
creative writing, prose, poetry, short fiction, memoir essay, defamiliarization, uncanny, identity, chronotope, experimental selves, feminism
Subject Categories
Creative Writing
Copyright
© Amelia Fisher
Recommended Citation
Fisher, Amelia, "Brilliant Women: Prose and Poetry" (2020). MSU Graduate Theses. 3514.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/3514
