Date of Award
5-2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Departmental Honors
Department
English
Abstract
The idea for this capstone was sparked in the last semester of my third year of undergraduate research at Utah State University. I had been researching the ways in which creative nonfiction writers approached the realm of surreality in their work with my honors contract advisor, Dr. Jennifer Sinor. Sinor herself had written a piece ("Holes in the Sky") that dealt heavily in abstractions paralleled with the works of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. While discussing the difficulties of expressing surreality in writing I made an offhand comment along the lines of "makes you wish you'd been a painter instead of a writer, huh?" to which Sinor replied, "You have no idea!"
Recommended Citation
Larsen, Shay, "Graphic Memoir as a Tool for Imaginative Leaping" (2015). Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects. 619.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/honors/619
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Faculty Mentor
Charles Waugh
Departmental Honors Advisor
John McLaughlin