South Dakota State University Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2018 Life Sucks: Classifying Transgressive Fiction Jena Christianson South Dakota State University Follow this and additional works at: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd Part of the Fiction Commons Recommended Citation Christianson, Jena, "Life Sucks: Classifying Transgressive Fiction" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2650. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/2650 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. LIFE SUCKS: CLASSIFYING TRANSGRESSIVE FICTION BY JENA CHRISTIANSON A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts Major in English South Dakota State University 2018 iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS After four years in the Master’s program, I have a laundry list of people to thank for seeing me through to the end. Through motivational, time management, and organizational struggles, countless instructors and peers have provided the encouragement and drive I needed to keep moving forward. I would like to thank Dr. Sharon Smith, my thesis advisor. I came to her with pieces of a long and broken thesis with no direction or coherence, and she helped me narrow topics down and zero in on which pieces to keep. She never doubted this project would come to fruition, and she encouraged me even when I saw nothing left to salvage in the pages in front of me.