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Stories for the Mongrel Heart

Plicka, Joseph B.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1304542382

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
A 
collection 
of
 six
 short
 stories,
 generally
 of 
a 
realist,
 minimalist 
aesthetic.
 They
 center
around 
middle‐class 
Americans 
stumbling 
through 
changes, 
looking 
for
 work,
 distraction,
renewal.
 Other 
subjects 
include 
flies, 
gorillas,
 infertility,
 ducks,
 basketball, 
telepathy,
marriage, 
Chinook 
jargon, 
spear
fishing, 
tourism,
 impending
 nuclear
 doom,
and
 dogs.
 Lots
 of
 dogs.
 Critical 
introduction 
seeks
 to 
examine 
how
 fiction
 operates,
 paying
 special
 attention
to
 the
 “elasticity”
 of
 literary 
language 
and
 drawing 
on 
the 
ideas 
of
 William
 Gass, 
Flannery
 O'Connor,
 John
 Gardner, 
Roland
 Barthes, 
James
Wood,
 and
 others,
 and on
 personal
observations 
on 
the
 craft 
and
 process 
of 
writing 
fiction.

Darrell Spencer, PhD (Committee Chair)
Robert DeMott, PhD (Committee Member)
Eric LeMay, PhD (Committee Member)
Hans Meyer, PhD (Committee Member)
137 p.
American Literature; Language Arts; Literature
short stories; fiction; creative writing; realism; elasticity; language

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  • Plicka, J. B. (2011). Stories for the Mongrel Heart [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1304542382

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Plicka, Joseph. Stories for the Mongrel Heart. 2011. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1304542382.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Plicka, Joseph. "Stories for the Mongrel Heart." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1304542382

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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