The Playhouse Bibles is a hybrid collection concerned with - and eventually obsessed with - its own creation, fabrication, and assembly. My goal in compiling this version of this metafictional thesis was to say something about how I write now, to indulge in the rare and glorious opportunity to explore the process of writing beyond genre and product, to honor chaos and magic when it occurs on the page, and it certainly did occur in these pages, quite unexpectedly, as part of a mandatory assignment to complete a degree in fiction. These stories, musings, poems, lists, spells, and instructions were written as if the author was on fire. In fact, I was. What I learned in the course of generating, accumulating, and selecting these works is that writing is both an act of play and an act of service. The purpose of The Playhouse Bibles is to prove it. / Master of Fine Arts / The Playhouse Bibles is a collection of short stories that investigate what it means to be a writer, an author, and a storyteller. These pieces ask questions about how meaning is made through the written word by experimenting with language, imagery, and repetition to challenge the expectations around what fiction is and what it can accomplish.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/114767 |
| Date | 24 April 2023 |
| Creators | Gonsalves, Florence |
| Contributors | English, Vollmer, James M., Roy, Lucinda H., Terazawa, Sophia Emi |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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