By Brandi Jo Petronio Nyberg, B.S. a Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements Degree of Master of Fine Arts I
Floating: ruminations from the open-air abyss Item Type Thesis Authors Nyberg, Brandi Jo Petronio Download date 25/09/2021 13:20:45 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10523 FLOATING: RUMINATIONS FROM THE OPEN-AIR ABYSS By Brandi Jo Petronio Nyberg, B.S. A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Nonfiction University of Alaska Fairbanks May 2019 APPROVED: Daryl Farmer, Ph.D., Committee Chair Frank Soos, M.F.A., Committee Member Jennifer Schell, Ph.D., Committee Member Rich Carr, Ph.D., Chair Department of English Todd Sherman, M.F.A., Dean College of Liberal Arts Michael Castellini, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School Abstract This thesis is a collection of environmentally centered personal essays, some of which are also research driven. Many of the essays within are place-based and several reflect on what the word ‘home' means. The research-driven essays involved conducting literature reviews within academic journals and, in some cases, weaving that information with personal narrative. Throughout the thesis, there is a loose narrative arc that follows the author's nomadic wanderings and search for home. Although a home is never quite found, the author does find a deeper meaning on what it means to call a place ‘home.' While the order of essays jumps from one place to the next geographically, they are ordered in a chronological sense - although not completely. Throughout the collection, the author is in direct conversation with many writers who have inspired her own writing, including Edward Abbey, Henry Thoreau, Barry Lopez, and Terry Tempest Williams.
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