Title

Geographies of Pluto

Author

Amelia Fowler

Date of Graduation

2016

Document Type

MFA Creative Writing Thesis

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

Embargo Reason

Permanent Embargo – MFA Creative Writing