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EAT THE APPLE
Author Info
Young, Matthew Charles
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8761-7091
Permalink:
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1432217119
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2015, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Abstract
This thesis is a collection of flash creative nonfiction essays exploring my four years serving in a United States Marine Corps infantry battalion. While the pieces as a whole follow a general linear timeline, I often move forward or backward in time as well as change perspective and genre in order to create a more fractured narrative. The fractured flash nature of the pieces mirrors traumatic and absurd events and the breakdown of my own identity while being consumed by both the order and disorder of military life. I place emphasis on individual moments and their affects. By utilizing flash and multiple genres I’m able to provide contained events that structurally work both individually and as a whole that ultimately connects these stories less through coherent story lines and timeframes and more through tones and themes.
Committee
Eric Goodman (Committee Chair)
Margaret Luongo (Committee Member)
Stefanie Dunning (Committee Member)
Pages
96 p.
Subject Headings
Armed Forces
;
Military History
;
Military Studies
;
Modern History
Keywords
Military
;
War
;
Marine Corps
;
Nonfiction
;
Flash
;
Memoir
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Young, M. C. (2015).
EAT THE APPLE
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1432217119
APA Style (7th edition)
Young, Matthew.
EAT THE APPLE.
2015. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1432217119.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Young, Matthew. "EAT THE APPLE." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1432217119
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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