Date of Award:
5-2017
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
English
Committee Chair(s)
Charles Waugh
Committee
Charles Waugh
Committee
Jennifer Sinor
Committee
Michael Spooner
Abstract
This creative thesis explores the hybridization of the flash nonfiction and comic forms in creative writing through the composition of six flash nonfiction comics. Each comic was composed in direct conversation with essential elements of flash nonfiction and comic craft, as well as new elements of craft introduced by the hybrid form of the flash nonfiction comic. This hybrid genre of flash nonfiction comics benefits from aspects of both forms craft, including: heightened potency of images and themes, a dependence on association, and narrative structures based on expanding larger ideas from “miniatures.” The comic form’s difficulties in dealing with nonfiction approaches to authorial presence and figurative language is also discussed
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Recommended Citation
Larsen, Shay C., "Frame by Frame: Flash Nonfiction in the Comic Form" (2017). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 5910.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5910
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