Keywords
Essays, essay collection, creative nonfiction, travel writing, literary, prose
Abstract
What You Leave Behind is a collection of essays framed by the theme of travel. The essays seek to understand the changeability and the consistency of the self when exposed to new cultures and new environments. They also explore what travel tells us about varying world perspectives, and how much of those varying world perspectives people can hope to understand. Lastly, these true-life stories and ruminations explore how travel shapes relationships: familial, romantic, and platonic. At its core, this thesis strives to reveal how traveling can inform the way people understand themselves, the world around them, and the relationships they have with others, both at home and abroad.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2014
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Roney, Lisa
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
English
Degree Program
Creative Writing
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0005464
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0005464
Language
English
Release Date
November 2019
Length of Campus-only Access
5 years
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Arts and Humanities -- Dissertations, Academic; Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Humanities
STARS Citation
Bernath, Madison, "What You Leave Behind: A Collection of Travel Essays" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4852.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4852