The preface, " Performing Brain Surgery: The Problematic Nature of Endings in Short Fiction," deals with the many and varied difficulties short story writers encounter when attempting to craft endings. Beginning with Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor and moving to my own work, I discuss some of the obscure criteria used to designate a successful ending, as well as the more concrete idea of the ending as a unifying element. Five short stories make up the remainder of this thesis: "In-between Girls," "Crocodile Man," "Surprising Things, Sometimes Amusing," "Good Jewelry," and "The Angular Degrees of Freedom."
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc700030 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Feagin, Aprell McQueeney |
| Contributors | Penkov, Miroslav, Tait, John, 1969-, Rodman, Barbara Ann |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iii, 125 pages, Text |
| Rights | Public, Feagin, Aprell McQueeney, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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