Abstract
Modern Arcana is a collection of eleven short stories, totaling 124 pages, and was written in pursuit of a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. This collection was written through multiple stages of planning and revising work in response to the feedback of peers and instructors. Through writing this thesis, I explored my own relationship to the craft of creative writing and composition, as well as the familiarized myself with the current work being published in my field and genre. This collection is made unique through the sharing magical elements between pieces and the themes of agency in relation to destiny explored throughout the collection that are also inherent in the practice of interpreting the tarot. The many narrators of this collection navigate issues of family, friendship, responsibility, isolation, and the level agency with which they move forward in their multitude of possible futures.
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Graduation Date
2017
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Thaxton, Terry
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
English
Degree Program
Creative Writing
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0006892
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0006892
Language
English
Release Date
12-15-2017
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Kolhoff, Kaitlin, "Modern Arcana" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5646.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/5646
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