Date of Graduation
2016
Document Type
MFA Creative Writing Thesis (Campus Access)
Embargo Reason
Permanent Embargo – MFA Creative Writing
Degree Type
MFA
College
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department
English
Committee Chair
Kevin Oderman
Committee Co-Chair
Mary Ann Samyn
Committee Member
Lisa Weihman
Abstract
Geographies of Pluto is a collection of fourteen essays that consider the relationship between individual consciousness and the cosmological universe. The immediate setting is West Virginia, but an inward, emotional landscape dominates the collection, a vista colored by mental illness and sexual abuse. Celestial landscapes provide a corollary for this subjective, personal world; Earth's moon, Pluto, the Cronian moon Enceladus, and Venus feature prominently. Individual essays juxtapose disparate subjects---for example, suicide and the dwarf planet Pluto---to create a more complete emotional portrait of the author's experiences. The collection also utilizes a recursive structure wherein subjects reoccur, often with altered emotional resonances.
Recommended Citation
Fowler, Amelia, "Geographies of Pluto" (2016). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 7086.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/7086
