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Date of Award

Spring 2025

Document Type

Masters Thesis (Campus-Only Access)

Department or Program Affiliation

English Graduate Department

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Dorr, Noam

Second Advisor

Magee, Kelly, 1976-

Third Advisor

Cushman, Jeremy

Abstract

What follows is a warning about children’s literature, the speculative mode, banned books, fairy tales, fear, flash fiction, sonic play, lists, the Midwest, the grotesque, and retellings. It is simultaneously a love letter to children’s literature, the speculative mode, banned books, fairy tales, fear, flash fiction, sonic play, lists, the Midwest, the grotesque, and retellings. In this creative thesis, the worlds of children are explored—the people and monsters within them and the rules that make them up. Some of those worlds are fantastical, fairytale-esk, and others are entirely real. What and who you will find within them will stun, confound, disorient and (possibly) mangle you. It’s done so to me. How delicious.

Type

Text

Keywords

children's literature, fairy tales, speculative, grotesque, retellings, banned books, flash fiction, sonic play

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1525161693

Subject – LCSH

Fairy tales--Psychological aspects; Fear in literature; Children in literature; Monsters in literature; Imagination in children; Children's literature--History and criticism; Storytelling--Psychological aspects

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

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