This short story collection dissertation primarily examines living and growing up in South Florida. Each story's energy moves toward capturing a sense of place, a sense of Florida's extraordinary coastlines and wet lands. Yet at the same time, each piece shows how the area's natural wonders become overwhelmed by the onslaught of the expanding concrete and asphalt megalopolis. This onslaught is also a critical facet of the sense of menace that pervades each work. This dark undercurrent brings an overriding tension to each story, a tension that is crucial to successful short story writing. / The shapes of the stories in the collection range from a traditional, minimalist form to a more post-modern fragmented structure that combines poetic and narrative technique. These mixed-genre stories intertwine the language-centered energy of poetry with the tension and character development of fiction. / These short stories also work to capture the lifestyle and characteristics of surfers living along the east coast of Florida. The habits and attitudes of these characters are brought to light through a vivid portrayal of their actions while hanging-out at the beach and surfing the waves at 40th Street Beach in Boca Raton, South Delray Beach in Delray, and other locations up and down Florida's coastline. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1360. / Major Professor: Jerome Stern. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995. / This short story collection dissertation primarily examines living and growing up in South Florida. Each story's energy moves toward capturing a sense of place, a sense of Florida's extraordinary coastlines and wet lands. Yet at the same time, each piece shows how the area's natural wonders become overwhelmed by the onslaught of the expanding concrete and asphalt megalopolis. This onslaught is also a critical facet of the sense of menace that pervades each work. This dark undercurrent brings an overriding tension to each story, a tension that is crucial to successful short story writing. / The shapes of the stories in the collection range from a traditional, minimalist form to a more post-modern fragmented structure that combines poetic and narrative technique. These mixed-genre stories intertwine the language-centered energy of poetry with the tension and character development of fiction. / These short stories also work to capture the lifestyle and characteristics of surfers living along the east coast of Florida. The habits and attitudes of these characters are brought to light through a vivid portrayal of their actions while hanging-out at the beach and surfing the waves at 40th Street Beach in Boca Raton, South Delray Beach in Delray, and other locations up and down Florida's coastline.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_68702 |
| Creators | Trammell, Michael Dalton |
| Publisher | Florida State University Libraries |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
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