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The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions

Doyle, Darrin Michael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155575561

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2006, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : English and Comparative Literature.
My creative work focuses on the notion of belief – not religious belief, necessarily, but belief (mistaken or not) in our ability to control the circumstances that shape us: as Wallace Stevens wrote, “It is the belief and not the god that counts.” Thematically, my works feature the following characteristics: elements of the fantastic; dark humor; and working-class protagonists who seek to palliate some unnamable dissatisfaction in their lives and who seek this correction through obsessive behavior that might be either wonderfully healing or terribly misguided – the results are in the eye of the beholder. The tensions between the fantastic and the realistic, between blue-collar and academic concerns, between knowing and not-knowing, between what we internally perceive and the external truth – unresolved oppositions like these are what create the lasting effects of literature, and they are what I strive to cultivate in my writing. Such binaries constitute the mystery and meaning of fiction, and they are, to quote Flannery O’Connor, what “keeps the short story from being short.”
Dr. Brock Clarke (Advisor)
236 p.
Literature, American
belief; dark humor; fiction; fantastic; realism

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  • Doyle, D. M. (2006). The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155575561

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Doyle, Darrin. The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions. 2006. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155575561.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Doyle, Darrin. "The Big Baby Crime Spree and Other Delusions." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155575561

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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