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Warp and Woof: Stories

Munnell, Lydia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458732141

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2016, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, Creative Writing/Fiction.
Warp and Woof is a story collection primarily governed by non-linear, woven story forms. My interest in forms that draw attention to the artifice of story is inherently tied to a love for the oral tradition I grew up with in rural Pennsylvania and, more broadly, northern Appalachia. The way that stories told aloud wind and weave creates a kind of atmospheric cloud that’s as much about the telling as it is the words themselves. In my study, woven story forms seem to best emulate that atmosphere. What’s more, Warp and Woof’s subjects and characters are tied to the same region as its forms, making this as much a collection of place as it is one of structural experimentation. Here are hills, forests, small farms, and animals; dirt tracks, and Sunday School, 4-H, and dogs chained long in kennels. The characters at the center of the stories that make up Warp and Woof are necessarily struggling in search of a personal narrative, a metaphor. The weaving of different times, voices, and points of view provides the reader with a system of symbols for understanding this search on a built-in, experiential level, even if the characters never find what they’re looking for.
Wendell Mayo, Dr. (Advisor)
Lawrence Coates, Dr. (Committee Member)
116 p.
Fine Arts
Fiction; Story Collection; Braided Narrative; Rural Fiction; Appalachian Fiction

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  • Munnell, L. (2016). Warp and Woof: Stories [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458732141

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  • Munnell, Lydia. Warp and Woof: Stories. 2016. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458732141.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Munnell, Lydia. "Warp and Woof: Stories." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458732141

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