THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE: STORIES
Date Available
5-4-2020
Year of Publication
2018
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
English
First Advisor
Manuel Gonzales
Abstract
The Elegant Universe: Stories is a story collection featuring female characters unflinching in their self-appraisal, and wry in their humor, who explore the realities of their heterosexual relationships, particularly the weighty decision whether to have children or not in these dark and terrifying times. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, the stories collected here explore the various, subtle modes of threat that are the palpable part of the experience of being a woman—not in society, or in the workplace, but primarily inside relationships with men. At the same time, the stories own that love can grow between men and women despite the near and present poison of misogyny. They own the miracle of motherhood while depicting the palpable fragility of new life and the proximity of mothers to unstoppable wreckage and ruin.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2018.281
Recommended Citation
Tighe-Pigott, Katharine, "THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE: STORIES" (2018). Theses and Dissertations--English. 81.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/81
