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What If You're Lonely_Jessica Stories.pdf (2.47 MB)
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What If You're Lonely: Jessica Stories
Author Info
Stoneberg, Michael R
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408368983
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Year and Degree
2014, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Abstract
This novel-in-stories follows Jessica through the difficulties of her early twenties to her mid-thirties. During this period of her life she struggles with loneliness and depression, attempting to find some form of meaningful connection through digital technologies as much as face-to-face interaction, coming to grips with a non-normative sexuality, finding and losing her first love and dealing with the resultant constant pull of this person on her psyche, and finally trying to find who in fact she, Jessica, really is, what version of herself is at her core. The picture of her early adulthood is drawn impressionistically, through various modes and styles of narration and points of view, as well as through found texts, focusing on preludes and aftermaths and asking the reader to intuit and imagine the spaces between.
Committee
Margaret Luongo (Committee Chair)
Madelyn Detloff (Committee Member)
Joseph Bates (Committee Member)
Pages
135 p.
Subject Headings
American Literature
Keywords
novella, stories, novel
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Stoneberg, M. R. (2014).
What If You're Lonely: Jessica Stories
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408368983
APA Style (7th edition)
Stoneberg, Michael.
What If You're Lonely: Jessica Stories.
2014. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408368983.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Stoneberg, Michael. "What If You're Lonely: Jessica Stories." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408368983
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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