Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
1982
Abstract
Literature is a record of moments to be remembered. What is life but moments, clock ticks and stimuli which fall jumbled, chaotic, meaningless upon the five human sensory organs? Fiction attempts to encapsulate certain moments, and although occasionally the moments recorded may appear to approximate reality, reality is elusive and chaotic. A writer attempts to weave from chaos a pattern. To do this he must reconstruct a series of moments which will appear to the reader to be believable, and in so doing the written word becomes art. Art emerges the moment the pattern becomes successfully completed ; moments are given meaning ; the depth beneath human experience is revealed ; trivia and meaninglessness receive interpretation. Within this subtle linking of moments lies the pleasure of reading.
Recommended Citation
Maynard, Isabel Barksdale, "Roosting Time A Collection of Short Stories." (1982). All ETDs from UAB. 6944.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/6944
Comments
MA - Master of Arts; ProQuest publication number 31751864