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The Visitors (A Novel)

Zlabek, Katherine

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2014, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: English and Comparative Literature.
The Visitors is set in the once-forgotten town of Galena, Illinois. In it, I investigate the dangers inherent when a town, its elderly and its children, is abandoned by all except those seeking the thrills and frivolity of a getaway. The novel’s landscape is haunted with spiritual anxiety, repressed memories—or memories that characters are desperate to repress, and personal connections that the characters are eager to shuck. The book is interested in the ways that people manipulate fact in order to create an apocryphal past, a personal narrative that explains the way a life is spent, justifies bitterness, or accounts for a fallen state.
Christopher Bachelder, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael Griffith, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
Leah Stewart, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
227 p.

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  • Zlabek, K. (2014). The Visitors (A Novel) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1409065876

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zlabek, Katherine. The Visitors (A Novel). 2014. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1409065876.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zlabek, Katherine. "The Visitors (A Novel)." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1409065876

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)