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Date Issued:
2011
Summary:
The narrative within this thesis follows events that transpire within a working class neighborhood over the span of three decades. The time and place in which these events occur, South Florida 1979-1989, lends itself to exploring themes such as race, class, addiction, the fragmentation of community, and the effects of these issues on the families that live there. Stylistically, the story makes three significant shifts in order to foreground each decade's dissimilarity. These shifts intentionally disrupt reader expectation while a coherent narrative thread unifies the work, rendering it fragmented yet complete.
Title: Stormland.
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Name(s): Ferguson, Adam
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of English
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: multipart monograph
Date Issued: 2011
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University, 2013.
Physical Form: electronic
Extent: v, 361 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The narrative within this thesis follows events that transpire within a working class neighborhood over the span of three decades. The time and place in which these events occur, South Florida 1979-1989, lends itself to exploring themes such as race, class, addiction, the fragmentation of community, and the effects of these issues on the families that live there. Stylistically, the story makes three significant shifts in order to foreground each decade's dissimilarity. These shifts intentionally disrupt reader expectation while a coherent narrative thread unifies the work, rendering it fragmented yet complete.
Identifier: 811336541 (oclc), 3353088 (digitool), FADT3353088 (IID), fau:3926 (fedora)
Note(s): by Adam Ferguson.
Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010.
Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject(s): Symbolism in literature
Florida -- 20th century -- Fiction
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3353088
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Host Institution: FAU