Date of Award
6-1-2015
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Jill McDonough
Second Advisor
John Fulton
Third Advisor
Daphne Kalotay
Abstract
Storytellers have an interdependent relationship with their narratives. If you have ever told a lie, you understand. Stories take on a life of their own, as you consider the potential ramifications of each contingent piece. Definite sets of things happen as results of specific other things. If you throw an ax at me, only a few things can immediately happen, and our relationship will be forever changed. Events evolve. When we create or discover a narrative, we live by its logic. Upon consideration, a moment compels a series of moments modulated by a voice, a single perspective, a personal narrative, which is to say a story. Stories are fabrications of reality, conveyance mechanisms of fact, fiction, and assertion. Stories are contrived, whereas narratives just exist. Narratives are there to be discovered. They are the veins of human action left by life’s tendency toward disorder. Narrative is entropy through time.
Recommended Citation
Nelson, Caleb, ": : poof : :" (2015). Graduate Masters Theses. 325.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/325